Foreword

0:6.1Any and all things re­spond­ing to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Fa­ther, we call per­sonal. Any and all things re­spond­ing to the spirit cir­cuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that re­sponds to the mind cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor, we call mind, mind as an at­tri­bute of the In­fi­nite Spirit—mind in all its phases. Any and all that re­sponds to the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuit cen­ter­ing in nether Par­a­dise, we call mat­ter—en­ergy-mat­ter in all its meta­mor­phic states.

0:6.2EN­ERGY we use as an all-in­clu­sive term ap­plied to spir­i­tual, mindal, and ma­te­rial realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is or­di­nar­ily lim­ited to the des­ig­na­tion of the elec­tronic level of ma­te­rial or lin­ear-grav­ity-re­spon­sive mat­ter in the grand uni­verse. Power is also em­ployed to des­ig­nate sov­er­eignty. We can­not fol­low your gen­er­ally ac­cepted def­i­ni­tions of force, en­ergy, and power. There is such paucity of lan­guage that we must as­sign mul­ti­ple mean­ings to these terms.

0:6.3Phys­i­cal en­ergy is a term de­not­ing all phases and forms of phe­nom­e­nal mo­tion, ac­tion, and po­ten­tial.

0:6.4In dis­cussing phys­i­cal-en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions, we gen­er­ally use the terms cos­mic force, emer­gent en­ergy, and uni­verse power. These are of­ten em­ployed as fol­lows:

0:6.51. Cos­mic force em­braces all en­er­gies de­riv­ing from the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute but which are as yet un­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity.

0:6.62. Emer­gent en­ergy em­braces those en­er­gies which are re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity but are as yet un­re­spon­sive to lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity. This is the pre-elec­tronic level of en­ergy-mat­ter.

0:6.73. Uni­verse power in­cludes all forms of en­ergy which, while still re­spond­ing to Par­a­dise grav­ity, are di­rectly re­spon­sive to lin­ear grav­ity. This is the elec­tronic level of en­ergy-mat­ter and all sub­se­quent evo­lu­tions thereof.

0:6.8Mind is a phe­nom­e­non con­not­ing the pres­ence-ac­tiv­ity of liv­ing min­istry in ad­di­tion to var­ied en­ergy sys­tems; and this is true on all lev­els of in­tel­li­gence. In per­son­al­ity, mind ever in­ter­venes be­tween spirit and mat­ter; there­fore is the uni­verse il­lu­mi­nated by three kinds of light: ma­te­rial light, in­tel­lec­tual in­sight, and spirit lu­mi­nos­ity.

0:6.9Light—spirit lu­mi­nos­ity—is a word sym­bol, a fig­ure of speech, which con­notes the per­son­al­ity man­i­fes­ta­tion char­ac­ter­is­tic of spirit be­ings of di­verse or­ders. This lu­mi­nous em­a­na­tion is in no re­spect re­lated ei­ther to in­tel­lec­tual in­sight or to phys­i­cal-light man­i­fes­ta­tions.

0:6.10PAT­TERN can be pro­jected as ma­te­rial, spir­i­tual, or mindal, or any com­bi­na­tion of these en­er­gies. It can per­vade per­son­al­i­ties, iden­ti­ties, en­ti­ties, or non­liv­ing mat­ter. But pat­tern is pat­tern and re­mains pat­tern; only copies are mul­ti­plied.

0:6.11Pat­tern may con­fig­ure en­ergy, but it does not con­trol it. Grav­ity is the sole con­trol of en­ergy-mat­ter. Nei­ther space nor pat­tern are grav­ity re­spon­sive, but there is no re­la­tion­ship be­tween space and pat­tern; space is nei­ther pat­tern nor po­ten­tial pat­tern. Pat­tern is a con­fig­u­ra­tion of re­al­ity which has al­ready paid all grav­ity debt; the re­al­ity of any pat­tern con­sists of its en­er­gies, its mind, spirit, or ma­te­rial com­po­nents.

0:6.12In con­trast to the as­pect of the to­tal, pat­tern dis­closes the in­di­vid­ual as­pect of en­ergy and of per­son­al­ity. Per­son­al­ity or iden­tity forms are pat­terns re­sul­tant from en­ergy (phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, or mindal) but are not in­her­ent therein. That qual­ity of en­ergy or of per­son­al­ity by virtue of which pat­tern is caused to ap­pear may be at­tributed to God—De­ity—to Par­a­dise force en­dow­ment, to the co­ex­is­tence of per­son­al­ity and power.

0:6.13Pat­tern is a mas­ter de­sign from which copies are made. Eter­nal Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns; the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern per­son­al­ity; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the di­rect an­ces­tor-source of both. But Par­a­dise does not be­stow pat­tern, and the Son can­not be­stow per­son­al­ity.