The Eternal Isle of Paradise

11:7.1Space does not ex­ist on any of the sur­faces of Par­a­dise. If one “looked” di­rectly up from the up­per sur­face of Par­a­dise, one would “see” noth­ing but un­per­vaded space go­ing out or com­ing in, just now com­ing in. Space does not touch Par­a­dise; only the qui­es­cent midspace zones come in con­tact with the cen­tral Isle.

11:7.2Par­a­dise is the ac­tu­ally mo­tion­less nu­cleus of the rel­a­tively qui­es­cent zones ex­ist­ing be­tween per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Ge­o­graph­i­cally these zones ap­pear to be a rel­a­tive ex­ten­sion of Par­a­dise, but there prob­a­bly is some mo­tion in them. We know very lit­tle about them, but we ob­serve that these zones of less­ened space mo­tion sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Sim­i­lar zones once ex­isted be­tween the lev­els of per­vaded space, but these are now less qui­es­cent.

11:7.3The ver­ti­cal cross sec­tion of to­tal space would slightly re­sem­ble a Mal­tese cross, with the hor­i­zon­tal arms rep­re­sent­ing per­vaded (uni­verse) space and the ver­ti­cal arms rep­re­sent­ing un­per­vaded (reser­voir) space. The ar­eas be­tween the four arms would sep­a­rate them some­what as the midspace zones sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. These qui­es­cent midspace zones grow larger and larger at greater and greater dis­tances from Par­a­dise and even­tu­ally en­com­pass the bor­ders of all space and com­pletely in­cap­su­late both the space reser­voirs and the en­tire hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space.

11:7.4Space is nei­ther a sub­ab­so­lute con­di­tion within, nor the pres­ence of, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, nei­ther is it a func­tion of the Ul­ti­mate. It is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, and the space of the grand uni­verse and that of all outer re­gions is be­lieved to be ac­tu­ally per­vaded by the an­ces­tral space po­tency of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. From near ap­proach to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, this per­vaded space ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward through the fourth space level and be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but how far be­yond we do not know.

11:7.5If you imag­ine a fi­nite, but in­con­ceiv­ably large, V-shaped plane sit­u­ated at right an­gles to both the up­per and lower sur­faces of Par­a­dise, with its point nearly tan­gent to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, and then vi­su­al­ize this plane in el­lip­ti­cal rev­o­lu­tion about Par­a­dise, its rev­o­lu­tion would roughly out­line the vol­ume of per­vaded space.

11:7.6There is an up­per and a lower limit to hor­i­zon­tal space with ref­er­ence to any given lo­ca­tion in the uni­verses. If one could move far enough at right an­gles to the plane of Or­von­ton, ei­ther up or down, even­tu­ally the up­per or lower limit of per­vaded space would be en­coun­tered. Within the known di­men­sions of the mas­ter uni­verse these lim­its draw far­ther and far­ther apart at greater and greater dis­tances from Par­a­dise; space thick­ens, and it thick­ens some­what faster than does the plane of cre­ation, the uni­verses.

11:7.7The rel­a­tively quiet zones be­tween the space lev­els, such as the one sep­a­rat­ing the seven super­uni­verses from the first outer space level, are enor­mous el­lip­ti­cal re­gions of qui­es­cent space ac­tiv­i­ties. These zones sep­a­rate the vast galax­ies which race around Par­a­dise in or­derly pro­ces­sion. You may vi­su­al­ize the first outer space level, where un­told uni­verses are now in pro­cess of for­ma­tion, as a vast pro­ces­sion of galax­ies swing­ing around Par­a­dise, bounded above and be­low by the midspace zones of qui­es­cence and bounded on the in­ner and outer mar­gins by rel­a­tively quiet space zones.

11:7.8A space level thus func­tions as an el­lip­ti­cal re­gion of mo­tion sur­rounded on all sides by rel­a­tive mo­tion­less­ness. Such re­la­tion­ships of mo­tion and qui­es­cence con­sti­tute a curved space path of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion which is uni­ver­sally fol­lowed by cos­mic force and emer­gent en­ergy as they cir­cle for­ever around the Isle of Par­a­dise.

11:7.9This al­ter­nate zon­ing of the mas­ter uni­verse, in as­so­ci­a­tion with the al­ter­nate clock­wise and coun­ter­clock­wise flow of the galax­ies, is a fac­tor in the sta­bi­liza­tion of phys­i­cal grav­ity de­signed to pre­vent the ac­cen­tu­a­tion of grav­ity pres­sure to the point of dis­rup­tive and dis­per­sive ac­tiv­i­ties. Such an ar­range­ment ex­erts anti­grav­ity in­flu­ence and acts as a brake upon oth­er­wise dan­ger­ous ve­loc­i­ties.