The Eternal Isle of Paradise

11:6.1We do not know the ac­tual mech­a­nism of space res­pi­ra­tion; we merely ob­serve that all space al­ter­nately con­tracts and ex­pands. This res­pi­ra­tion af­fects both the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space and the ver­ti­cal ex­ten­sions of un­per­vaded space which ex­ist in the vast space reser­voirs above and be­low Par­a­dise. In at­tempt­ing to imag­ine the vol­ume out­lines of these space reser­voirs, you might think of an hour­glass.

11:6.2As the uni­verses of the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space ex­pand, the reser­voirs of the ver­ti­cal ex­ten­sion of un­per­vaded space con­tract and vice versa. There is a con­flu­ence of per­vaded and un­per­vaded space just un­der­neath nether Par­a­dise. Both types of space there flow through the trans­mut­ing reg­u­la­tion chan­nels, where changes are wrought mak­ing per­vad­able space non­per­vad­able and vice versa in the con­trac­tion and ex­pan­sion cy­cles of the cos­mos.

11:6.3“Un­per­vaded” space means: un­per­vaded by those forces, en­er­gies, pow­ers, and pres­ences known to ex­ist in per­vaded space. We do not know whether ver­ti­cal (reser­voir) space is des­tined al­ways to func­tion as the equipoise of hor­i­zon­tal (uni­verse) space; we do not know whether there is a cre­ative in­tent con­cern­ing un­per­vaded space; we re­ally know very lit­tle about the space reser­voirs, merely that they ex­ist, and that they seem to coun­ter­bal­ance the space-ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cles of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

11:6.4The cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion ex­tend in each phase for a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years. Dur­ing one phase the uni­verses ex­pand; dur­ing the next they con­tract. Per­vaded space is now ap­proach­ing the mid-point of the ex­pand­ing phase, while un­per­vaded space nears the mid-point of the con­tract­ing phase, and we are in­formed that the out­er­most lim­its of both space ex­ten­sions are, the­o­ret­i­cally, now ap­prox­i­mately equidis­tant from Par­a­dise. The un­per­vaded-space reser­voirs now ex­tend ver­ti­cally above up­per Par­a­dise and be­low nether Par­a­dise just as far as the per­vaded space of the uni­verse ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward from pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise to and even be­yond the fourth outer space level.

11:6.5For a bil­lion years of Uran­tia time the space reser­voirs con­tract while the mas­ter uni­verse and the force ac­tiv­i­ties of all hor­i­zon­tal space ex­pand. It thus re­quires a lit­tle over two bil­lion Uran­tia years to com­plete the en­tire ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cle.