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Urantia Book Paper 42 Energy--mind And Matter
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SPIRITWEB ORG, PROMOTING SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS ON THE INTERNET.
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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The Seraphic Hosts The Ascending Sons Of God Physical Aspects Of The Local
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Universe Energy--mind And Matter The Constellations The Celestial Artisans The
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Local System Administration The Local System Headquarters The Seven Mansion
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Worlds The Morontia Life The Inhabited Worlds The Planetary Princes The
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Planetary Adams Planetary Mortal Epochs The Lucifer Rebellion Problems Of The
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Lucifer Rebellion The Spheres Of Light And Life Universal Unity
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Paper 42 Energy--mind And Matter
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Introduction
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THE foundation of the universe is material in the sense that energy is the
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basis of all existence, and pure energy is controlled by the Universal Father.
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Force, energy, is the one thing which stands as an everlasting monument
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demonstrating and proving the existence and presence of the Universal Absolute.
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This vast stream of energy proceeding from the Paradise Presences has never
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lapsed, never failed; there has never been a break in the infinite upholding.
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The manipulation of universe energy is ever in accordance with the personal
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will and the all-wise mandates of the Universal Father. This personal control
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of manifested power and circulating energy is modified by the co-ordinate acts
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and decisions of the Eternal Son, as well as by the united purposes of the Son
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and the Father executed by the Conjoint Actor. These divine beings act
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personally and as individuals; they also function in the persons and powers of
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an almost unlimited number of subordinates, each variously expressive of the
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eternal and divine purpose in the universe of universes. But these functional
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and provisional modifications or transmutations of divine power in no way
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lessen the truth of the statement that all force-energy is under the ultimate
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control of a personal God resident at the center of all things.
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1. PARADISE FORCES AND ENERGIES
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The foundation of the universe is material, but the essence of life is spirit.
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The Father of spirits is also the ancestor of universes; the eternal Father of
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the Original Son is also the eternity-source of the original pattern, the Isle
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of Paradise.
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Matter--energy--for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic
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reality, as a universe phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. "In him
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all things consist." Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to
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exhibit self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the
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energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from, and are
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dependent on, Paradise. The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has
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Paradise as its nucleus.
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There is innate in matter and present in universal space a form of energy not
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known on Urantia. When this discovery is finally made, then will physicists
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feel that they have solved, almost at least, the mystery of matter. And so will
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they have approached one step nearer the Creator; so will they have mastered
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one more phase of the divine technique; but in no sense will they have found
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God, neither will they have established the existence of matter or the
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operation of natural laws apart from the cosmic technique of Paradise and the
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motivating purpose of the Universal Father.
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Subsequent to even still greater progress and further discoveries, after
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Urantia has advanced immeasurably in comparison with present knowledge, though
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you should gain control of the energy revolutions of the electrical units of
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matter to the extent of modifying their physical manifestations--even after all
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such possible progress, forever will scientists be powerless to create one atom
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of matter or to originate one flash of energy or ever to add to matter that
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which we call life.
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The creation of energy and the bestowal of life are the prerogatives of the
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Universal Father and his associate Creator personalities. The river of energy
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and life is a continuous outpouring from the Deities, the universal and united
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stream of Paradise force going forth to all space. This divine energy pervades
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all creation. The force organizers initiate those changes and institute those
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modifications of space-force which eventuate in energy; the power directors
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transmute energy into matter; thus the material worlds are born. The Life
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Carriers initiate those processes in dead matter which we call life, material
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life. The Morontia Power Supervisors likewise perform throughout the transition
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realms between the material and the spiritual worlds. The higher spirit
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Creators inaugurate similar processes in divine forms of energy, and there
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ensue the higher spirit forms of intelligent life.
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Energy proceeds from Paradise, fashioned after the divine order. Energy--pure
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energy--partakes of the nature of the divine organization; it is fashioned
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after the similitude of the three Gods embraced in one, as they function at the
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headquarters of the universe of universes. And all force is circuited in
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Paradise, comes from the Paradise Presences and returns thereto, and is in
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essence a manifestation of the uncaused Cause--the Universal Father; and
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without the Father would not anything exist that does exist.
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Force derived from self-existent Deity is in itself ever existent. Force-energy
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is imperishable, indestructible; these manifestations of the Infinite may be
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subject to unlimited transmutation, endless transformation, and eternal
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metamorphosis; but in no sense or degree, not even to the slightest imaginable
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extent, could they or ever shall they suffer extinction. But energy, though
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springing from the Infinite, is not infinitely manifest; there are outer limits
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to the presently conceived master universe.
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Energy is eternal but not infinite; it ever responds to the all-embracing grasp
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of Infinity. Forever force and energy go on; having gone out from Paradise,
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they must return thereto, even if age upon age be required for the completion
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of the ordained circuit. That which is of Paradise Deity origin can have only a
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Paradise destination or a Deity destiny.
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And all this confirms our belief in a circular, somewhat limited, but orderly
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and far-flung universe of universes. If this were not true, then evidence of
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energy depletion at some point would sooner or later appear. All laws,
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organizations, administration, and the testimony of universe
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explorers--everything points to the existence of an infinite God but, as yet, a
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finite universe, a circularity of endless existence, well-nigh limitless but,
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nevertheless, finite in contrast with infinity.
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2. UNIVERSAL NONSPIRITUAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
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It is indeed difficult to find suitable words in the English language whereby
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to designate and wherewith to describe the various levels of force and
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energy--physical, mindal, or spiritual. These narratives cannot altogether
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follow your accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such
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paucity of language that we must use these terms in multiple meanings. In this
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paper, for example, the word energy is used to denote all phases and forms of
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phenomenal motion, action, and potential, while force is applied to the
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pregravity, and power to the postgravity, stages of energy.
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I will, however, endeavor to lessen conceptual confusion by suggesting the
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advisability of adopting the following classification for cosmic force,
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emergent energy, and universe power--physical energy:
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1. Space potency. This is the unquestioned free space presence of the
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Unqualified Absolute. The extension of this concept connotes the universe
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force-space potential inherent in the functional totality of the Unqualified
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Absolute, while the intension of this concept implies the totality of cosmic
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reality--universes--which emanated eternitywise from the never-beginning,
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never-ending, never-moving, never-changing Isle of Paradise.
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The phenomena indigenous to the nether side of Paradise probably embrace three
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zones of absolute force presence and performance: the fulcral zone of the
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Unqualified Absolute, the zone of the Isle of Paradise itself, and the
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intervening zone of certain unidentified equalizing and compensating agencies
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or functions. These triconcentric zones are the centrum of the Paradise cycle
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of cosmic reality.
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Space potency is a prereality; it is the domain of the Unqualified Absolute and
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is responsive only to the personal grasp of the Universal Father,
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notwithstanding that it is seemingly modifiable by the presence of the Primary
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Master Force Organizers.
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On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as ABSOLUTA.
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2. Primordial force. This represents the first basic change in space potency
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and may be one of the nether Paradise functions of the Unqualified Absolute. We
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know that the space presence going out from nether Paradise is modified in some
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manner from that which is incoming. But regardless of any such possible
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relationships, the openly recognized transmutation of space potency into
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primordial force is the primary differentiating function of the
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tension-presence of the living Paradise force organizers.
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Passive and potential force becomes active and primordial in response to the
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resistance afforded by the space presence of the Primary Eventuated Master
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Force Organizers. Force is now emerging from the exclusive domain of the
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Unqualified Absolute into the realms of multiple response--response to certain
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primal motions initiated by the God of Action and thereupon to certain
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compensating motions emanating from the Universal Absolute. Primordial force is
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seemingly reactive to transcendental causation in proportion to absoluteness.
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Primordial force is sometimes spoken of as pure energy; on Uversa we refer to
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it as SEGREGATA.
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3. Emergent energies. The passive presence of the primary force organizers is
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sufficient to transform space potency into primordial force, and it is upon
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such an activated space field that these same force organizers begin their
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initial and active operations. Primordial force is destined to pass through two
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distinct phases of transmutation in the realms of energy manifestation before
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appearing as universe power. These two levels of emerging energy are:
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a. Puissant energy. This is the powerful-directional, mass-movemented,
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mighty-tensioned, and forcible-reacting energy--gigantic energy systems set in
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motion by the activities of the primary force organizers. This primary or
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puissant energy is not at first definitely responsive to the Paradise-gravity
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pull though probably yielding an aggregate-mass or space-directional response
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to the collective group of absolute influences operative from the nether side
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of Paradise. When energy emerges to the level of initial response to the
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circular and absolute-gravity grasp of Paradise, the primary force organizers
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give way to the functioning of their secondary associates.
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b. Gravity energy. The now-appearing gravity-responding energy carries the
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potential of universe power and becomes the active ancestor of all universe
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matter. This secondary or gravity energy is the product of the energy
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elaboration resulting from the pressure-presence and the tension-trends set up
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by the Associate Transcendental Master Force Organizers. In response to the
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work of these force manipulators, space-energy rapidly passes from the puissant
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to the gravity stage, thus becoming directly responsive to the circular grasp
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of Paradise (absolute) gravity while disclosing a certain potential for
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sensitivity to the linear-gravity pull inherent in the soon appearing material
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mass of the electronic and the postelectronic stages of energy and matter. Upon
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the appearance of gravity response, the Associate Master Force Organizers may
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retire from the energy cyclones of space provided the Universe Power Directors
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are assignable to that field of action.
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We are quite uncertain regarding the exact causes of the early stages of force
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evolution, but we recognize the intelligent action of the Ultimate in both
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levels of emergent-energy manifestation. Puissant and gravity energies, when
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regarded collectively, are spoken of on Uversa as ULTIMATA.
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4. Universe power. Space-force has been changed into space-energy and thence
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into the energy of gravity control. Thus has physical energy been ripened to
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that point where it can be directed into channels of power and made to serve
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the manifold purposes of the universe Creators. This work is carried on by the
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versatile directors, centers, and controllers of physical energy in the grand
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universe--the organized and inhabited creations. These Universe Power Directors
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assume the more or less complete control of twenty-one of the thirty phases of
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energy constituting the present energy system of the seven superuniverses. This
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domain of power-energy-matter is the realm of the intelligent activities of the
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Sevenfold, functioning under the time-space overcontrol of the Supreme.
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On Uversa we refer to the realm of universe power as
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5. Havona energy. In concept this narrative has been moving Paradiseward as
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transmuting space-force has been followed, level by level, to the working level
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of the energy-power of the universes of time and space. Continuing
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Paradiseward, there is next encountered a pre-existent phase of energy which is
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characteristic of the central universe. Here the evolutionary cycle seems to
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turn back upon itself; energy-power now seems to begin to swing back towards
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force, but force of a nature very unlike that of space potency and primordial
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force. Havona energy systems are not dual; they are triune. This is the
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existential energy domain of the Conjoint Actor, functioning in behalf of the
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Paradise Trinity.
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On Uversa these energies of Havona are known as TRIATA.
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6. Transcendental energy. This energy system operates on and from the upper
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level of Paradise and only in connection with the absonite peoples. On Uversa
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it is denominated TRANOSTA.
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7. Monota. Energy is close of kin to divinity when it is Paradise energy. We
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incline to the belief that monota is the living, nonspirit energy of
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Paradise--an eternity counterpart of the living, spirit energy of the Original
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Son--hence the nonspiritual energy system of the Universal Father.
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We cannot differentiate the nature of Paradise spirit and Paradise monota; they
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are apparently alike. They have different names, but you can hardly be told
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very much about a reality whose spiritual and whose nonspiritual manifestations
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are distinguishable only by name.
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We know that finite creatures can attain the worship experience of the
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Universal Father through the ministry of God the Sevenfold and the Thought
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Adjusters, but we doubt that any subabsolute personality, even power directors,
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can comprehend the energy infinity of the First Great Source and Center. One
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thing is certain: If the power directors are conversant with the technique of
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the metamorphosis of space-force, they do not reveal the secret to the rest of
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us. It is my opinion that they do not fully comprehend the function of the
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force organizers.
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These power directors themselves are energy catalyzers; that is, they cause
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energy to segment, organize, or assemble in unit formation by their presence.
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And all this implies that there must be something inherent in energy which
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causes it thus to function in the presence of these power entities. The Nebadon
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Melchizedeks long since denominated the phenomenon of the transmutation of
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cosmic force into universe power as one of the seven "infinities of divinity."
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And that is as far as you will advance on this point during your local universe
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ascension.
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Notwithstanding our inability fully to comprehend the origin, nature, and
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transmutations of cosmic force, we are fully conversant with all phases of
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emergent-energy behavior from the times of its direct and unmistakable response
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to the action of Paradise gravity--about the time of the beginning of the
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function of the superuniverse power directors.
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3. CLASSIFICATION OF MATTER
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Matter in all universes, excepting in the central universe, is identical.
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Matter in its physical properties depends on the revolutionary rates of its
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component members, the number and size of the revolving members, their distance
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from the nuclear body or the space content of matter, as well as on the
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presence of certain forces as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
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In the varied suns, planets, and space bodies there are ten grand divisions of
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matter:
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1. Ultimatonic matter--the prime physical units of material existence, the
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energy particles which go to make up electrons.
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2. Subelectronic matter--the explosive and repellent stage of the solar
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supergases.
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3. Electronic matter--the electrical stage of material
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differentiation--electrons, protons, and various other units entering into the
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varied constitution of the electronic groups.
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4. Subatomic matter--matter existing extensively in the interior of the hot
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suns.
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5. Shattered atoms--found in the cooling suns and throughout space.
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6. Ionized matter--individual atoms stripped of their outer (chemically active)
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electrons by electrical, thermal, or X-ray activities and by solvents.
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7. Atomic matter--the chemical stage of elemental organization, the component
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units of molecular or visible matter.
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8. The molecular stage of matter--matter as it exists on Urantia in a state of
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relatively stable materialization under ordinary conditions.
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9. Radioactive matter--the disorganizing tendency and activity of the heavier
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elements under conditions of moderate heat and diminished gravity pressure.
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10. Collapsed matter--the relatively stationary matter found in the interior of
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the cold or dead suns. This form of matter is not really stationary; there is
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still some ultimatonic, even electronic activity, but these units are in very
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close proximity, and their rates of revolution are greatly diminished.
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The foregoing classification of matter pertains to its organization rather than
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to the forms of its appearance to created beings. Neither does it take into
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account the pre-emergent stages of energy nor the eternal materializations on
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Paradise and in the central universe.
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4. ENERGY AND MATTER TRANSMUTATIONS
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Light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemism, energy, and matter are--in
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origin, nature, and destiny--one and the same thing, together with other
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material realities as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
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We do not fully comprehend the almost endless changes to which physical energy
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may be subject. In one universe it appears as light, in another as light plus
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heat, in another as forms of energy unknown on Urantia; in untold millions of
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years it may reappear as some form of restless, surging electrical energy or
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magnetic power; and still later on it may again appear in a subsequent universe
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as some form of variable matter going through a series of metamorphoses, to be
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followed by its outward physical disappearance in some great cataclysm of the
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realms. And then, after countless ages and almost endless wandering through
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numberless universes, again may this same energy re-emerge and many times
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change its form and potential; and so do these transformations continue through
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successive ages and throughout countless realms. Thus matter sweeps on,
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undergoing the transmutations of time but swinging ever true to the circle of
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eternity; even if long prevented from returning to its source, it is ever
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responsive thereto, and it ever proceeds in the path ordained by the Infinite
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Personality who sent it forth.
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The power centers and their associates are much concerned in the work of
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transmuting the ultimaton into the circuits and revolutions of the electron.
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These unique beings control and compound power by their skillful manipulation
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of the basic units of materialized energy, the ultimatons. They are masters of
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energy as it circulates in this primitive state. In liaison with the physical
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controllers they are able to effectively control and direct energy even after
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it has transmuted to the electrical level, the so-called electronic stage. But
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their range of action is enormously curtailed when electronically organized
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energy swings into the whirls of the atomic systems. Upon such materialization,
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these energies fall under the complete grasp of the drawing power of linear
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gravity.
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Gravity acts positively on the power lanes and energy channels of the power
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centers and the physical controllers, but these beings have only a negative
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relation to gravity--the exercise of their antigravity endowments.
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Throughout all space, cold and other influences are at work creatively
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organizing ultimatons into electrons. Heat is the measurement of electronic
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activity, while cold merely signifies absence of heat--comparative energy
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rest--the status of the universal force-charge of space provided neither
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emergent energy nor organized matter were present and responding to gravity.
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Gravity presence and action is what prevents the appearance of the theoretical
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absolute zero, for interstellar space does not have the temperature of absolute
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zero. Throughout all organized space there are gravity-responding energy
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currents, power circuits, and ultimatonic activities, as well as organizing
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electronic energies. Practically speaking, space is not empty. Even the
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atmosphere of Urantia thins out increasingly until at about three thousand
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miles it begins to shade off into the average space matter in this section of
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the universe. The most nearly empty space known in Nebadon would yield about
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one hundred ultimatons--the equivalent of one electron--in each cubic inch.
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Such scarcity of matter is regarded as practically empty space.
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Temperature--heat and cold--is secondary only to gravity in the realms of
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energy and matter evolution. Ultimatons are humbly obedient to temperature
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extremes. Low temperatures favor certain forms of electronic construction and
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atomic assembly, while high temperatures facilitate all sorts of atomic breakup
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and material disintegration.
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When subjected to the heat and pressure of certain internal solar states, all
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but the most primitive associations of matter may be broken up. Heat can thus
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largely overcome gravity stability. But no known solar heat or pressure can
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convert ultimatons back into puissant energy.
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The blazing suns can transform matter into various forms of energy, but the
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dark worlds and all outer space can slow down electronic and ultimatonic
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activity to the point of converting these energies into the matter of the
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realms. Certain electronic associations of a close nature, as well as many of
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the basic associations of nuclear matter, are formed in the exceedingly low
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temperatures of open space, being later augmented by association with larger
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accretions of materializing energy.
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Throughout all of this never-ending metamorphosis of energy and matter we must
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reckon with the influence of gravity pressure and with the antigravity behavior
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of the ultimatonic energies under certain conditions of temperature, velocity,
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and revolution. Temperature, energy currents, distance, and the presence of the
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living force organizers and the power directors also have a bearing on all
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transmutation phenomena of energy and matter.
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The increase of mass in matter is equal to the increase of energy divided by
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the square of the velocity of light. In a dynamic sense the work which resting
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matter can perform is equal to the energy expended in bringing its parts
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together from Paradise minus the resistance of the forces overcome in transit
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and the attraction exerted by the parts of matter on one another.
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The existence of pre-electronic forms of matter is indicated by the two atomic
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weights of lead. The lead of original formation weighs slightly more than that
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produced through uranium disintegration by way of radium emanations; and this
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difference in atomic weight represents the actual loss of energy in the atomic
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breakup.
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The relative integrity of matter is assured by the fact that energy can be
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absorbed or released only in those exact amounts which Urantia scientists have
|
||
designated quanta. This wise provision in the material realms serves to
|
||
maintain the universes as going concerns.
|
||
|
||
The quantity of energy taken in or given out when electronic or other positions
|
||
are shifted is always a "quantum" or some multiple thereof, but the vibratory
|
||
or wavelike behavior of such units of energy is wholly determined by the
|
||
dimensions of the material structures concerned. Such wavelike energy ripples
|
||
are 860 times the diameters of the ultimatons, electrons, atoms, or other units
|
||
thus performing. The never-ending confusion attending the observation of the
|
||
wave mechanics of quantum behavior is due to the superimposition of energy
|
||
waves: Two crests can combine to make a double-height crest, while a crest and
|
||
a trough may combine, thus producing mutual cancellation.
|
||
|
||
5. WAVE-ENERGY MANIFESTATIONS
|
||
|
||
In the superuniverse of Orvonton there are one hundred octaves of wave energy.
|
||
Of these one hundred groups of energy manifestations, sixty-four are wholly or
|
||
partially recognized on Urantia. The sun's rays constitute four octaves in the
|
||
superuniverse scale, the visible rays embracing a single octave, number
|
||
forty-six in this series. The ultraviolet group comes next, while ten octaves
|
||
up are the X rays, followed by the gamma rays of radium. Thirty-two octaves
|
||
above the visible light of the sun are the outer-space energy rays so
|
||
frequently commingled with their associated highly energized minute particles
|
||
of matter. Next downward from visible sunlight appear the infrared rays, and
|
||
thirty octaves below are the radio transmission group.
|
||
|
||
Wavelike energy manifestations--from the standpoint of twentieth-century
|
||
Urantia scientific enlightenment--may be classified into the following ten
|
||
groups:
|
||
|
||
1. Infraultimatonic rays--the borderland revolutions of ultimatons as they
|
||
begin to assume definite form. This is the first stage of emergent energy in
|
||
which wavelike phenomena can be detected and measured.
|
||
|
||
2. Ultimatonic rays. The assembly of energy into the minute spheres of the
|
||
ultimatons occasions vibrations in the content of space which are discernible
|
||
and measurable. And long before physicists ever discover the ultimaton, they
|
||
will undoubtedly detect the phenomena of these rays as they shower in upon
|
||
Urantia. These short and powerful rays represent the initial activity of the
|
||
ulti-
|
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|
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|
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|
||
matons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer towards the
|
||
electronic organization of matter. As the ultimatons aggregate into electrons,
|
||
condensation occurs with a consequent storage of energy.
|
||
|
||
3. The short space rays. These are the shortest of all purely electronic
|
||
vibrations and represent the preatomic stage of this form of matter. These rays
|
||
require extraordinarily high or low temperatures for their production. There
|
||
are two sorts of these space rays: one attendant upon the birth of atoms and
|
||
the other indicative of atomic disruption. They emanate in the largest
|
||
quantities from the densest plane of the superuniverse, the Milky Way, which is
|
||
also the densest plane of the outer universes.
|
||
|
||
4. The electronic stage. This stage of energy is the basis of all
|
||
materialization in the seven superuniverses. When electrons pass from higher to
|
||
lower energy levels of orbital revolution, quanta are always given off. Orbital
|
||
shifting of electrons results in the ejection or the absorption of very
|
||
definite and uniform measurable particles of light-energy, while the individual
|
||
electron always gives up a particle of light-energy when subjected to
|
||
collision. Wavelike energy manifestations also attend upon the performances of
|
||
the positive bodies and the other members of the electronic stage.
|
||
|
||
5. Gamma rays--those emanations which characterize the spontaneous dissociation
|
||
of atomic matter. The best illustration of this form of electronic activity is
|
||
in the phenomena associated with radium disintegration.
|
||
|
||
6. The X-ray group. The next step in the slowing down of the electron yields
|
||
the various forms of solar X rays together with artificially generated X rays.
|
||
The electronic charge creates an electric field; movement gives rise to an
|
||
electric current; the current produces a magnetic field. When an electron is
|
||
suddenly stopped, the resultant electromagnetic commotion produces the X ray;
|
||
the X ray is that disturbance. The solar X rays are identical with those which
|
||
are mechanically generated for exploring the interior of the human body except
|
||
that they are a trifle longer.
|
||
|
||
7. The ultraviolet or chemical rays of sunlight and the various mechanical
|
||
productions.
|
||
|
||
8. The white light--the whole visible light of the suns.
|
||
|
||
9. Infrared rays--the slowing down of electronic activity still nearer the
|
||
stage of appreciable heat.
|
||
|
||
10. Hertzian waves--those energies utilized on Urantia for broadcasting.
|
||
|
||
Of all these ten phases of wavelike energy activity, the human eye can react to
|
||
just one octave, the whole light of ordinary sunlight.
|
||
|
||
The so-called ether is merely a collective name to designate a group of force
|
||
and energy activities occurring in space. Ultimatons, electrons, and other mass
|
||
aggregations of energy are uniform particles of matter, and in their transit
|
||
through space they really proceed in direct lines. Light and all other forms of
|
||
recognizable energy manifestations consist of a succession of definite energy
|
||
particles which proceed in direct lines except as modified by gravity and other
|
||
intervening forces. That these processions of energy particles appear as wave
|
||
phenomena when subjected to certain observations is due to the resistance of
|
||
the undifferentiated force blanket of all space, the hypothetical ether, and to
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
the intergravity tension of the associated aggregations of matter. The spacing
|
||
of the particle-intervals of matter, together with the initial velocity of the
|
||
energy beams, establishes the undulatory appearance of many forms of
|
||
energy-matter.
|
||
|
||
The excitation of the content of space produces a wavelike reaction to the
|
||
passage of rapidly moving particles of matter, just as the passage of a ship
|
||
through water initiates waves of varying amplitude and interval.
|
||
|
||
Primordial-force behavior does give rise to phenomena which are in many ways
|
||
analogous to your postulated ether. Space is not empty; the spheres of all
|
||
space whirl and plunge on through a vast ocean of outspread force-energy;
|
||
neither is the space content of an atom empty. Nevertheless there is no ether,
|
||
and the very absence of this hypothetical ether enables the inhabited planet to
|
||
escape falling into the sun and the encircling electron to resist falling into
|
||
the nucleus.
|
||
|
||
6. ULTIMATONS, ELECTRONS, AND ATOMS
|
||
|
||
While the space charge of universal force is homogeneous and undifferentiated,
|
||
the organization of evolved energy into matter entails the concentration of
|
||
energy into discrete masses of definite dimensions and established
|
||
weight--precise gravity reaction.
|
||
|
||
Local or linear gravity becomes fully operative with the appearance of the
|
||
atomic organization of matter. Preatomic matter becomes slightly gravity
|
||
responsive when activated by X ray and other similar energies, but no
|
||
measurable linear-gravity pull is exerted on free, unattached, and uncharged
|
||
electronic-energy particles or on unassociated ultimatons.
|
||
|
||
Ultimatons function by mutual attraction, responding only to the circular
|
||
Paradise-gravity pull. Without linear-gravity response they are thus held in
|
||
the universal space drift. Ultimatons are capable of accelerating revolutionary
|
||
velocity to the point of partial antigravity behavior, but they cannot,
|
||
independent of force organizers or power directors, attain the critical escape
|
||
velocity of deindividuation, return to the puissant-energy stage. In nature,
|
||
ultimatons escape the status of physical existence only when participating in
|
||
the terminal disruption of a cooled-off and dying sun.
|
||
|
||
The ultimatons, unknown on Urantia, slow down through many phases of physical
|
||
activity before they attain the revolutionary-energy prerequisites to
|
||
electronic organization. Ultimatons have three varieties of motion: mutual
|
||
resistance to cosmic force, individual revolutions of antigravity potential,
|
||
and the intraelectronic positions of the one hundred mutually interassociated
|
||
ultimatons.
|
||
|
||
Mutual attraction holds one hundred ultimatons together in the constitution of
|
||
the electron; and there are never more nor less than one hundred ultimatons in
|
||
a typical electron. The loss of one or more ultimatons destroys typical
|
||
electronic identity, thus bringing into existence one of the ten modified forms
|
||
of the electron.
|
||
|
||
Ultimatons do not describe orbits or whirl about in circuits within the
|
||
electrons, but they do spread or cluster in accordance with their axial
|
||
revolutionary velocities, thus determining the differential electronic
|
||
dimensions. This same ultimatonic velocity of axial revolution also determines
|
||
the negative or positive reactions of the several types of electronic units.
|
||
The entire segregation and grouping of electronic matter, together with the
|
||
electric differentiation of neg-
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
ative and positive bodies of energy-matter, result from these various functions
|
||
of the component ultimatonic interassociation.
|
||
|
||
Each atom is a trifle over 1/100,000,000th of an inch in diameter, while an
|
||
electron weighs a little more than 1/2,000th of the smallest atom, hydrogen.
|
||
The positive proton, characteristic of the atomic nucleus, while it may be no
|
||
larger than a negative electron, weighs almost two thousand times more.
|
||
|
||
If the mass of matter should be magnified until that of an electron equaled one
|
||
tenth of an ounce, then were size to be proportionately magnified, the volume
|
||
of such an electron would become as large as that of the earth. If the volume
|
||
of a proton--eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron--should be
|
||
magnified to the size of the head of a pin, then, in comparison, a pin's head
|
||
would attain a diameter equal to that of the earth's orbit around the sun.
|
||
|
||
7. ATOMIC MATTER
|
||
|
||
The formation of all matter is on the order of the solar system. There is at
|
||
the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable,
|
||
comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central
|
||
unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation. Surrounding this
|
||
energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits,
|
||
the energy units which are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun
|
||
of some starry group like your own solar system.
|
||
|
||
Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the
|
||
same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the
|
||
space of the solar system. There is the same relative distance, in comparison
|
||
with actual size, between the atomic nucleus and the inner electronic circuit
|
||
as exists between the inner planet, Mercury, and your sun.
|
||
|
||
The electronic axial revolutions and their orbital velocities about the atomic
|
||
nucleus are both beyond the human imagination, not to mention the velocities of
|
||
their component ultimatons. The positive particles of radium fly off into space
|
||
at the rate of ten thousand miles a second, while the negative particles attain
|
||
a velocity approximating that of light.
|
||
|
||
The local universes are of decimal construction. There are just one hundred
|
||
distinguishable atomic materializations of space-energy in a dual universe;
|
||
that is the maximum possible organization of matter in Nebadon. These one
|
||
hundred forms of matter consist of a regular series in which from one to one
|
||
hundred electrons revolve around a central and relatively compact nucleus. It
|
||
is this orderly and dependable association of various energies that constitutes
|
||
matter.
|
||
|
||
Not every world will show one hundred recognizable elements at the surface, but
|
||
they are somewhere present, have been present, or are in process of evolution.
|
||
Conditions surrounding the origin and subsequent evolution of a planet
|
||
determine how many of the one hundred atomic types will be observable. The
|
||
heavier atoms are not found on the surface of many worlds. Even on Urantia the
|
||
known heavier elements manifest a tendency to fly to pieces, as is illustrated
|
||
by radium behavior.
|
||
|
||
Stability of the atom depends on the number of electrically inactive neutrons
|
||
in the central body. Chemical behavior is wholly dependent on the activity of
|
||
the freely revolving electrons.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
In Orvonton it has never been possible naturally to assemble over one hundred
|
||
orbital electrons in one atomic system. When one hundred and one have been
|
||
artificially introduced into the orbital field, the result has always been the
|
||
well-nigh instantaneous disruption of the central proton with the wild
|
||
dispersion of the electrons and other liberated energies.
|
||
|
||
While atoms may contain from one to one hundred orbital electrons, only the
|
||
outer ten electrons of the larger atoms revolve about the central nucleus as
|
||
distinct and discrete bodies, intactly and compactly swinging around on precise
|
||
and definite orbits. The thirty electrons nearest the center are difficult of
|
||
observation or detection as separate and organized bodies. This same
|
||
comparative ratio of electronic behavior in relation to nuclear proximity
|
||
obtains in all atoms regardless of the number of electrons embraced. The nearer
|
||
the nucleus, the less there is of electronic individuality. The wavelike energy
|
||
extension of an electron may so spread out as to occupy the whole of the lesser
|
||
atomic orbits; especially is this true of the electrons nearest the atomic
|
||
nucleus.
|
||
|
||
The thirty innermost orbital electrons have individuality, but their energy
|
||
systems tend to intermingle, extending from electron to electron and well-nigh
|
||
from orbit to orbit. The next thirty electrons constitute the second family, or
|
||
energy zone, and are of advancing individuality, bodies of matter exerting a
|
||
more complete control over their attendant energy systems. The next thirty
|
||
electrons, the third energy zone, are still more individualized and circulate
|
||
in more distinct and definite orbits. The last ten electrons, present in only
|
||
the ten heaviest elements, are possessed of the dignity of independence and
|
||
are, therefore, able to escape more or less freely from the control of the
|
||
mother nucleus. With a minimum variation in temperature and pressure, the
|
||
members of this fourth and outermost group of electrons will escape from the
|
||
grasp of the central nucleus, as is illustrated by the spontaneous disruption
|
||
of uranium and kindred elements.
|
||
|
||
The first twenty-seven atoms, those containing from one to twenty-seven orbital
|
||
electrons, are more easy of comprehension than the rest. From twenty-eight
|
||
upward we encounter more and more of the unpredictability of the supposed
|
||
presence of the Unqualified Absolute. But some of this electronic
|
||
unpredictability is due to differential ultimatonic axial revolutionary
|
||
velocities and to the unexplained "huddling" proclivity of ultimatons. Other
|
||
influences--physical, electrical, magnetic, and gravitational--also operate to
|
||
produce variable electronic behavior. Atoms therefore are similar to persons as
|
||
to predictability. Statisticians may announce laws governing a large number of
|
||
either atoms or persons but not for a single individual atom or person.
|
||
|
||
8. ATOMIC COHESION
|
||
|
||
While gravity is one of several factors concerned in holding together a tiny
|
||
atomic energy system, there is also present in and among these basic physical
|
||
units a powerful and unknown energy, the secret of their basic constitution and
|
||
ultimate behavior, a force which remains to be discovered on Urantia. This
|
||
universal influence permeates all the space embraced within this tiny energy
|
||
organization.
|
||
|
||
The interelectronic space of an atom is not empty. Throughout an atom this
|
||
interelectronic space is activated by wavelike manifestations which are
|
||
perfectly
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
synchronized with electronic velocity and ultimatonic revolutions. This force
|
||
is not wholly dominated by your recognized laws of positive and negative
|
||
attraction; its behavior is therefore sometimes unpredictable. This unnamed
|
||
influence seems to be a space-force reaction of the Unqualified Absolute.
|
||
|
||
The charged protons and the uncharged neutrons of the nucleus of the atom are
|
||
held together by the reciprocating function of the mesotron, a particle of
|
||
matter 180 times as heavy as the electron. Without this arrangement the
|
||
electric charge carried by the protons would be disruptive of the atomic
|
||
nucleus.
|
||
|
||
As atoms are constituted, neither electric nor gravitational forces could hold
|
||
the nucleus together. The integrity of the nucleus is maintained by the
|
||
reciprocal cohering function of the mesotron, which is able to hold charged and
|
||
uncharged particles together because of superior force-mass power and by the
|
||
further function of causing protons and neutrons constantly to change places.
|
||
The mesotron causes the electric charge of the nuclear particles to be
|
||
incessantly tossed back and forth between protons and neutrons. At one
|
||
infinitesimal part of a second a given nuclear particle is a charged proton and
|
||
the next an uncharged neutron. And these alternations of energy status are so
|
||
unbelievably rapid that the electric charge is deprived of all opportunity to
|
||
function as a disruptive influence. Thus does the mesotron function as an
|
||
"energy-carrier" particle which mightily contributes to the nuclear stability
|
||
of the atom.
|
||
|
||
The presence and function of the mesotron also explains another atomic riddle.
|
||
When atoms perform radioactively, they emit far more energy than would be
|
||
expected. This excess of radiation is derived from the breaking up of the
|
||
mesotron "energy carrier," which thereby becomes a mere electron. The
|
||
mesotronic disintegration is also accompanied by the emission of certain small
|
||
uncharged particles.
|
||
|
||
The mesotron explains certain cohesive properties of the atomic nucleus, but it
|
||
does not account for the cohesion of proton to proton nor for the adhesion of
|
||
neutron to neutron. The paradoxical and powerful force of atomic cohesive
|
||
integrity is a form of energy as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
|
||
|
||
These mesotrons are found abundantly in the space rays which so incessantly
|
||
impinge upon your planet.
|
||
|
||
9. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
|
||
|
||
Religion is not alone dogmatic; natural philosophy equally tends to dogmatize.
|
||
When a renowned religious teacher reasoned that the number seven was
|
||
fundamental to nature because there are seven openings in the human head, if he
|
||
had known more of chemistry, he might have advocated such a belief founded on a
|
||
true phenomenon of the physical world. There is in all the physical universes
|
||
of time and space, notwithstanding the universal manifestation of the decimal
|
||
constitution of energy, the ever-present reminder of the reality of the
|
||
sevenfold electronic organization of prematter.
|
||
|
||
The number seven is basic to the central universe and the spiritual system of
|
||
inherent transmissions of character, but the number ten, the decimal system, is
|
||
inherent in energy, matter, and the material creation. Nevertheless the atomic
|
||
world does display a certain periodic characterization which recurs in groups
|
||
of seven--a birthmark carried by this material world indicative of its
|
||
far-distant spiritual origin.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
This sevenfold persistence of creative constitution is exhibited in the
|
||
chemical domains as a recurrence of similar physical and chemical properties in
|
||
segregated periods of seven when the basic elements are arranged in the order
|
||
of their atomic weights. When the Urantia chemical elements are thus arranged
|
||
in a row, any given quality or property tends to recur by sevens. This periodic
|
||
change by sevens recurs diminishingly and with variations throughout the entire
|
||
chemical table, being most markedly observable in the earlier or lighter atomic
|
||
groupings. Starting from any one element, after noting some one property, such
|
||
a quality will change for six consecutive elements, but on reaching the eighth,
|
||
it tends to reappear, that is, the eighth chemically active element resembles
|
||
the first, the ninth the second, and so on. Such a fact of the physical world
|
||
unmistakably points to the sevenfold constitution of ancestral energy and is
|
||
indicative of the fundamental reality of the sevenfold diversity of the
|
||
creations of time and space. Man should also note that there are seven colors
|
||
in the natural spectrum.
|
||
|
||
But not all the suppositions of natural philosophy are valid; for example, the
|
||
hypothetical ether, which represents an ingenious attempt of man to unify his
|
||
ignorance of space phenomena. The philosophy of the universe cannot be
|
||
predicated on the observations of so-called science. If such a metamorphosis
|
||
could not be seen, a scientist would be inclined to deny the possibility of
|
||
developing a butterfly out of a caterpillar.
|
||
|
||
Physical stability associated with biologic elasticity is present in nature
|
||
only because of the well-nigh infinite wisdom possessed by the Master
|
||
Architects of creation. Nothing less than transcendental wisdom could ever
|
||
design units of matter which are at the same time so stable and so efficiently
|
||
flexible.
|
||
|
||
10. UNIVERSAL NONSPIRITUAL ENERGY SYSTEMS
|
||
|
||
The endless sweep of relative cosmic reality from the absoluteness of Paradise
|
||
monota to the absoluteness of space potency, is suggestive of certain
|
||
evolutions of relationship in the nonspiritual realities of the First Source
|
||
and Center--those realities which are concealed in space potency, revealed in
|
||
monota, and provisionally disclosed on intervening cosmic levels. This eternal
|
||
cycle of energy, being circuited in the Father of universes, is absolute and,
|
||
being absolute, is expansile in neither fact nor value; nevertheless the Primal
|
||
Father is even now--as always--self-realizing of an ever-expanding arena of
|
||
time-space, and of time-space-transcended, meanings, an arena of changing
|
||
relationships wherein energy-matter is being progressively subjected to the
|
||
overcontrol of living and divine spirit through the experiential striving of
|
||
living and personal mind.
|
||
|
||
The universal nonspiritual energies are reassociated in the living systems of
|
||
non-Creator minds on various levels, certain of which may be depicted as
|
||
follows:
|
||
|
||
1. Preadjutant-spirit minds. This level of mind is nonexperiencing and on the
|
||
inhabited worlds is ministered by the Master Physical Controllers. This is
|
||
mechanical mind, the nonteachable intellect of the most primitive forms of
|
||
material life, but the nonteachable mind functions on many levels beside that
|
||
of primitive planetary life.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
2. Adjutant-spirit minds. This is the ministry of a local universe Mother
|
||
Spirit functioning through her seven adjutant mind-spirits on the teachable
|
||
(nonmechanical) level of material mind. On this level material mind is
|
||
experiencing: as subhuman (animal) intellect in the first five adjutants; as
|
||
human (moral) intellect in the seven adjutants; as superhuman (midwayer)
|
||
intellect in the last two adjutants.
|
||
|
||
3. Evolving morontia minds--the expanding consciousness of evolving
|
||
personalities in the local universe ascending careers. This is the bestowal of
|
||
the local universe Mother Spirit in liaison with the Creator Son. This mind
|
||
level connotes the organization of the morontia type of life vehicle, a
|
||
synthesis of the material and the spiritual which is effected by the Morontia
|
||
Power Supervisors of a local universe. Morontia mind functions differentially
|
||
in response to the 570 levels of morontia life, disclosing increasing
|
||
associative capacity with the cosmic mind on the higher levels of attainment.
|
||
This is the evolutionary course of mortal creatures, but mind of a nonmorontia
|
||
order is also bestowed by a Universe Son and a Universe Spirit upon the
|
||
nonmorontia children of the local creations.
|
||
|
||
The cosmic mind. This is the sevenfold diversified mind of time and space, one
|
||
phase of which is ministered by each of the Seven Master Spirits to one of the
|
||
seven superuniverses. The cosmic mind encompasses all finite-mind levels and
|
||
co-ordinates experientially with the evolutionary-deity levels of the Supreme
|
||
Mind and transcendentally with the existential levels of absolute mind--the
|
||
direct circuits of the Conjoint Actor.
|
||
|
||
On Paradise, mind is absolute; in Havona, absonite; in Orvonton, finite. Mind
|
||
always connotes the presence-activity of living ministry plus varied energy
|
||
systems, and this is true of all levels and of all kinds of mind. But beyond
|
||
the cosmic mind it becomes increasingly difficult to portray the relationships
|
||
of mind to nonspiritual energy. Havona mind is subabsolute but
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superevolutionary; being existential-experiential, it is nearer the absonite
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than any other concept revealed to you. Paradise mind is beyond human
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understanding; it is existential, nonspatial, and nontemporal. Nevertheless,
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all of these levels of mind are overshadowed by the universal presence of the
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Conjoint Actor--by the mind-gravity grasp of the God of mind on Paradise.
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11. UNIVERSE MECHANISMS
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In the evaluation and recognition of mind it should be remembered that the
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universe is neither mechanical nor magical; it is a creation of mind and a
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mechanism of law. But while in practical application the laws of nature operate
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in what seems to be the dual realms of the physical and the spiritual, in
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reality they are one. The First Source and Center is the primal cause of all
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materialization and at the same time the first and final Father of all spirits.
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The Paradise Father appears personally in the extra-Havona universes only as
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pure energy and pure spirit--as the Thought Adjusters and other similar
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fragmentations.
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Mechanisms do not absolutely dominate the total creation; the universe of
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universes in toto is mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. But the
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divine mechanism of the universe of universes is altogether too perfect for the
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scientific methods of the finite mind of man to discern even a trace of the
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dominance of the infinite mind. For this creating, controlling, and upholding
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mind
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is neither material mind nor creature mind; it is spirit-mind functioning on
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and from creator levels of divine reality.
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The ability to discern and discover mind in universe mechanisms depends
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entirely on the ability, scope, and capacity of the investigating mind engaged
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in such a task of observation. Time-space minds, organized out of the energies
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of time and space, are subject to the mechanisms of time and space.
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|
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Motion and universe gravitation are twin facets of the impersonal time-space
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mechanism of the universe of universes. The levels of gravity response for
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spirit, mind, and matter are quite independent of time, but only true spirit
|
||
levels of reality are independent of space (nonspatial). The higher mind levels
|
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of the universe--the spirit-mind levels--may also be nonspatial, but the levels
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||
of material mind, such as human mind, are responsive to the interactions of
|
||
universe gravitation, losing this response only in proportion to spirit
|
||
identification. Spirit-reality levels are recognized by their spirit content,
|
||
and spirituality in time and space is measured inversely to the linear-gravity
|
||
response.
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|
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Linear-gravity response is a quantitative measure of nonspirit energy. All
|
||
mass--organized energy--is subject to this grasp except as motion and mind act
|
||
upon it. Linear gravity is the short-range cohesive force of the macrocosmos
|
||
somewhat as the forces of intra-atomic cohesion are the short-range forces of
|
||
the microcosmos. Physical materialized energy, organized as so-called matter,
|
||
cannot traverse space without affecting linear-gravity response. Although such
|
||
gravity response is directly proportional to mass, it is so modified by
|
||
intervening space that the final result is no more than roughly approximated
|
||
when expressed as inversely according to the square of the distance. Space
|
||
eventually conquers linear gravitation because of the presence therein of the
|
||
antigravity influences of numerous supermaterial forces which operate to
|
||
neutralize gravity action and all responses thereto.
|
||
|
||
Extremely complex and highly automatic-appearing cosmic mechanisms always tend
|
||
to conceal the presence of the originative or creative indwelling mind from any
|
||
and all intelligences very far below the universe levels of the nature and
|
||
capacity of the mechanism itself. Therefore is it inevitable that the higher
|
||
universe mechanisms must appear to be mindless to the lower orders of
|
||
creatures. The only possible exception to such a conclusion would be the
|
||
implication of mindedness in the amazing phenomenon of an apparently
|
||
self-maintaining universe--but that is a matter of philosophy rather than one
|
||
of actual experience.
|
||
|
||
Since mind co-ordinates the universe, fixity of mechanisms is nonexistent. The
|
||
phenomenon of progressive evolution associated with cosmic self-maintenance is
|
||
universal. The evolutionary capacity of the universe is inexhaustible in the
|
||
infinity of spontaneity. Progress towards harmonious unity, a growing
|
||
experiential synthesis superimposed on an ever-increasing complexity of
|
||
relationships, could be effected only by a purposive and dominant mind.
|
||
|
||
The higher the universe mind associated with any universe phenomenon, the more
|
||
difficult it is for the lower types of mind to discover it. And since the mind
|
||
of the universe mechanism is creative spirit-mind (even the mindedness of the
|
||
Infinite), it can never be discovered or discerned by the lower-level minds of
|
||
the universe, much less by the lowest mind of all, the human. The evolving
|
||
animal mind, while naturally God-seeking, is not alone and of itself inherently
|
||
God-knowing.
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
||
12. PATTERN AND FORM--MIND DOMINANCE
|
||
|
||
The evolution of mechanisms implies and indicates the concealed presence and
|
||
dominance of creative mind. The ability of the mortal intellect to conceive,
|
||
design, and create automatic mechanisms demonstrates the superior, creative,
|
||
and purposive qualities of man's mind as the dominant influence on the planet.
|
||
Mind always reaches out towards:
|
||
|
||
1. Creation of material mechanisms.
|
||
|
||
2. Discovery of hidden mysteries.
|
||
|
||
3. Exploration of remote situations.
|
||
|
||
4. Formulation of mental systems.
|
||
|
||
5. Attainment of wisdom goals.
|
||
|
||
6. Achievement of spirit levels.
|
||
|
||
7. The accomplishment of divine destinies--supreme, ultimate, and absolute.
|
||
|
||
Mind is always creative. The mind endowment of an individual animal, mortal,
|
||
morontian, spirit ascender, or finality attainer is always competent to produce
|
||
a suitable and serviceable body for the living creature identity. But the
|
||
presence phenomenon of a personality or the pattern of an identity, as such, is
|
||
not a manifestation of energy, either physical, mindal, or spiritual. The
|
||
personality form is the pattern aspect of a living being; it connotes the
|
||
arrangement of energies, and this, plus life and motion, is the mechanism of
|
||
creature existence.
|
||
|
||
Even spirit beings have form, and these spirit forms (patterns) are real. Even
|
||
the highest type of spirit personalities have forms--personality presences in
|
||
every sense analogous to Urantia mortal bodies. Nearly all beings encountered
|
||
in the seven superuniverses are possessed of forms. But there are a few
|
||
exceptions to this general rule: Thought Adjusters appear to be without form
|
||
until after fusion with the surviving souls of their mortal associates.
|
||
Solitary Messengers, Inspired Trinity Spirits, Personal Aids of the Infinite
|
||
Spirit, Gravity Messengers, Transcendental Recorders, and certain others are
|
||
also without discoverable form. But these are typical of the exceptional few;
|
||
the great majority have bona fide personality forms, forms which are
|
||
individually characteristic, and which are recognizable and personally
|
||
distinguishable.
|
||
|
||
The liaison of the cosmic mind and the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits
|
||
evolve a suitable physical tabernacle for the evolving human being. Likewise
|
||
does the morontia mind individualize the morontia form for all mortal
|
||
survivors. As the mortal body is personal and characteristic for every human
|
||
being, so will the morontia form be highly individual and adequately
|
||
characteristic of the creative mind which dominates it. No two morontia forms
|
||
are any more alike than any two human bodies. The Morontia Power Supervisors
|
||
sponsor, and the attending seraphim provide, the undifferentiated morontia
|
||
material wherewith the morontia life can begin to work. And after the morontia
|
||
life it will be found that spirit forms are equally diverse, personal, and
|
||
characteristic of their respective spirit-mind indwellers.
|
||
|
||
On a material world you think of a body as having a spirit, but we regard the
|
||
spirit as having a body. The material eyes are truly the windows of the spirit-
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
born soul. The spirit is the architect, the mind is the builder, the body is
|
||
the material building.
|
||
|
||
Physical, spiritual, and mindal energies, as such and in their pure states, do
|
||
not fully interact as actuals of the phenomenal universes. On Paradise the
|
||
three energies are co-ordinate, in Havona co-ordinated, while in the universe
|
||
levels of finite activities there must be encountered all ranges of material,
|
||
mindal, and spiritual dominance. In nonpersonal situations of time and space,
|
||
physical energy seems to predominate, but it also appears that the more nearly
|
||
spirit-mind function approaches divinity of purpose and supremacy of action,
|
||
the more nearly does the spirit phase become dominant; that on the ultimate
|
||
level spirit-mind may become all but completely dominant. On the absolute level
|
||
spirit certainly is dominant. And from there on out through the realms of time
|
||
and space, wherever a divine spirit reality is present, whenever a real
|
||
spirit-mind is functioning, there always tends to be produced a material or
|
||
physical counterpart of that spirit reality.
|
||
|
||
The spirit is the creative reality; the physical counterpart is the time-space
|
||
reflection of the spirit reality, the physical repercussion of the creative
|
||
action of spirit-mind.
|
||
|
||
Mind universally dominates matter, even as it is in turn responsive to the
|
||
ultimate overcontrol of spirit. And with mortal man, only that mind which
|
||
freely submits itself to the spirit direction can hope to survive the mortal
|
||
time-space existence as an immortal child of the eternal spirit world of the
|
||
Supreme, the Ultimate, and the Absolute: the Infinite.
|
||
|
||
[Presented by a Mighty Messenger on duty in Nebadon and by the request of
|
||
Gabriel.]
|
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Subjects Archive The Urantia Book Urantia Book PART II: The Local Universe :
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The Evolution Of Local Universes Administration Of The Local Universe The Local
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Universe Mother Spirit The Local Universe Sons Of God The Life Carriers
|
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Personalities Of The Local Universe Ministering Spirits Of The Local Universe
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|
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|
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