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Paper 11

The Eternal Isle of Paradise

Perfector of Wisdom

8. Paradise Gravity

11:8.1The in­es­cap­able pull of grav­ity ef­fec­tively grips all the worlds of all the uni­verses of all space. Grav­ity is the all-pow­er­ful grasp of the phys­i­cal pres­ence of Par­a­dise. Grav­ity is the om­nipo­tent strand on which are strung the gleam­ing stars, blaz­ing suns, and whirling spheres which con­sti­tute the uni­ver­sal phys­i­cal adorn­ment of the eter­nal God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom all things con­sist.

11:8.2The cen­ter and fo­cal point of ab­so­lute ma­te­rial grav­ity is the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­ple­mented by the dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona and equi­li­brated by the up­per and nether space reser­voirs. All known em­a­na­tions of nether Par­a­dise in­vari­ably and unerringly re­spond to the cen­tral grav­ity pull op­er­at­ing upon the end­less cir­cuits of the el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse. Ev­ery known form of cos­mic re­al­ity has the bend of the ages, the trend of the cir­cle, the swing of the great el­lipse.

11:8.3Space is non­re­spon­sive to grav­ity, but it acts as an equi­li­brant on grav­ity. With­out the space cush­ion, ex­plo­sive ac­tion would jerk sur­round­ing space bod­ies. Per­vaded space also ex­erts an anti­grav­ity in­flu­ence upon phys­i­cal or lin­ear grav­ity; space can ac­tu­ally neu­tral­ize such grav­ity ac­tion even though it can­not de­lay it. Ab­so­lute grav­ity is Par­a­dise grav­ity. Lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity per­tains to the elec­tri­cal stage of en­ergy or mat­ter; it op­er­ates within the cen­tral, su­per-, and outer uni­verses, wher­ever suit­able ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion has taken place.

11:8.4The nu­mer­ous forms of cos­mic force, phys­i­cal en­ergy, uni­verse power, and var­i­ous ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions dis­close three gen­eral, though not per­fectly clear-cut, stages of re­sponse to Par­a­dise grav­ity:

11:8.51. Pre­grav­ity Stages (Force). This is the first step in the in­di­vid­u­a­tion of space po­tency into the pre-en­ergy forms of cos­mic force. This state is anal­o­gous to the con­cept of the pri­mor­dial force-charge of space, some­times called pure en­ergy or seg­re­gata.

11:8.62. Grav­ity Stages (En­ergy). This mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the force-charge of space is pro­duced by the ac­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. It sig­nal­izes the ap­pear­ance of en­ergy sys­tems re­spon­sive to the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. This emer­gent en­ergy is orig­i­nally neu­tral but con­se­quent upon fur­ther meta­mor­pho­sis will ex­hibit the so-called neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive qual­i­ties. We des­ig­nate these stages ul­ti­mata.

11:8.73. Post­grav­ity Stages (Uni­verse Power). In this stage, en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes re­sponse to the con­trol of lin­ear grav­ity. In the cen­tral uni­verse these phys­i­cal sys­tems are three­fold or­ga­ni­za­tions known as tri­ata. They are the super­power mother sys­tems of the cre­ations of time and space. The phys­i­cal sys­tems of the super­uni­verses are mo­bi­lized by the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates. These ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions are dual in con­sti­tu­tion and are known as gravita. The dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona are nei­ther tri­ata nor gravita, and their draw­ing power dis­closes both forms of phys­i­cal grav­ity, lin­ear and ab­so­lute.

11:8.8Space po­tency is not sub­ject to the in­ter­ac­tions of any form of grav­i­ta­tion. This pri­mal en­dow­ment of Par­a­dise is not an ac­tual level of re­al­ity, but it is an­ces­tral to all rel­a­tive func­tional non­spirit re­al­i­ties—all man­i­fes­ta­tions of force-en­ergy and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of power and mat­ter. Space po­tency is a term dif­fi­cult to de­fine. It does not mean that which is an­ces­tral to space; its mean­ing should con­vey the idea of the po­ten­cies and po­ten­tials ex­is­tent within space. It may be roughly con­ceived to in­clude all those ab­so­lute in­flu­ences and po­ten­tials which em­anate from Par­a­dise and con­sti­tute the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

11:8.9Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute source and the eter­nal fo­cal point of all en­ergy-mat­ter in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is the re­vealer, reg­u­la­tor, and re­pos­i­tory of that which has Par­a­dise as its source and ori­gin. The uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute seems to be equiv­a­lent to the con­cept of a po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of grav­ity ex­ten­sion, an elas­tic ten­sion of Par­a­dise pres­ence. This con­cept aids us in grasp­ing the fact that ev­ery­thing is drawn in­ward to­wards Par­a­dise. The il­lus­tra­tion is crude but nonethe­less help­ful. It also ex­plains why grav­ity al­ways acts pref­er­en­tially in the plane per­pen­dic­u­lar to the mass, a phe­nom­e­non in­dica­tive of the dif­fer­en­tial di­men­sions of Par­a­dise and the sur­round­ing cre­ations.