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Paper 12

The Universe of Universes

Perfector of Wisdom

3. Universal Gravity

12:3.1All forms of force-en­ergy—ma­te­rial, mindal, or spir­i­tual—are alike sub­ject to those grasps, those uni­ver­sal pres­ences, which we call grav­ity. Per­son­al­ity also is re­spon­sive to grav­ity—to the Fa­ther’s ex­clu­sive cir­cuit; but though this cir­cuit is ex­clu­sive to the Fa­ther, he is not ex­cluded from the other cir­cuits; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and acts over all four ab­so­lute-grav­ity cir­cuits in the mas­ter uni­verse:

12:3.21. The Per­son­al­ity Grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

12:3.32. The Spirit Grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

12:3.43. The Mind Grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

12:3.54. The Cos­mic Grav­ity of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

12:3.6These four cir­cuits are not re­lated to the nether Par­a­dise force cen­ter; they are nei­ther force, en­ergy, nor power cir­cuits. They are ab­so­lute pres­ence cir­cuits and like God are in­de­pen­dent of time and space.

12:3.7In this con­nec­tion it is in­ter­est­ing to re­cord cer­tain ob­ser­va­tions made on Uversa dur­ing re­cent mil­len­ni­ums by the corps of grav­ity re­searchers. This ex­pert group of work­ers has ar­rived at the fol­low­ing con­clu­sions re­gard­ing the dif­fer­ent grav­ity sys­tems of the mas­ter uni­verse:

12:3.81. Phys­i­cal Grav­ity. Hav­ing for­mu­lated an es­ti­mate of the sum­ma­tion of the en­tire phys­i­cal-grav­ity ca­pac­ity of the grand uni­verse, they have la­bo­ri­ously ef­fected a com­par­i­son of this find­ing with the es­ti­mated to­tal of ab­so­lute grav­ity pres­ence now op­er­a­tive. These cal­cu­la­tions in­di­cate that the to­tal grav­ity ac­tion on the grand uni­verse is a very small part of the es­ti­mated grav­ity pull of Par­a­dise, com­puted on the ba­sis of the grav­ity re­sponse of ba­sic phys­i­cal units of uni­verse mat­ter. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors reach the amaz­ing con­clu­sion that the cen­tral uni­verse and the sur­round­ing seven super­uni­verses are at the pres­ent time mak­ing use of only about five per cent of the ac­tive func­tion­ing of the Par­a­dise ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp. In other words: At the pres­ent mo­ment about ninety-five per cent of the ac­tive cos­mic-grav­ity ac­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­puted on this to­tal­ity the­ory, is en­gaged in con­trol­ling ma­te­rial sys­tems be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verses. These cal­cu­la­tions all re­fer to ab­so­lute grav­ity; lin­ear grav­ity is an in­ter­ac­tive phe­nom­e­non which can be com­puted only by know­ing the ac­tual Par­a­dise grav­ity.

12:3.92. Spir­i­tual Grav­ity. By the same tech­nique of com­par­a­tive es­ti­ma­tion and cal­cu­la­tion these re­searchers have ex­plored the pres­ent re­ac­tion ca­pac­ity of spirit grav­ity and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and other spirit per­son­al­i­ties, have ar­rived at the sum­ma­tion of the ac­tive spirit grav­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. And it is most in­struc­tive to note that they find about the same value for the ac­tual and func­tional pres­ence of spirit grav­ity in the grand uni­verse that they pos­tu­late for the pres­ent to­tal of ac­tive spirit grav­ity. In other words: At the pres­ent time prac­ti­cally the en­tire spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, com­puted on this the­ory of to­tal­ity, is ob­serv­able as func­tion­ing in the grand uni­verse. If these find­ings are de­pend­able, we may con­clude that the uni­verses now evolv­ing in outer space are at the pres­ent time wholly non­spir­i­tual. And if this is true, it would sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain why spirit-en­dowed be­ings are in pos­ses­sion of lit­tle or no in­for­ma­tion about these vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions aside from know­ing the fact of their phys­i­cal ex­is­tence.

12:3.103. Mind Grav­ity. By these same prin­ci­ples of com­par­a­tive com­pu­ta­tion these ex­perts have at­tacked the prob­lem of mind-grav­ity pres­ence and re­sponse. The mind unit of es­ti­ma­tion was ar­rived at by av­er­ag­ing three ma­te­rial and three spir­i­tual types of men­tal­ity, al­though the type of mind found in the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates proved to be a dis­turb­ing fac­tor in the ef­fort to ar­rive at a ba­sic unit for mind-grav­ity es­ti­ma­tion. There was lit­tle to im­pede the es­ti­ma­tion of the pres­ent ca­pac­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter for mind-grav­ity func­tion in ac­cor­dance with this the­ory of to­tal­ity. Al­though the find­ings in this in­stance are not so con­clu­sive as in the es­ti­mates of phys­i­cal and spirit grav­ity, they are, com­par­a­tively con­sid­ered, very in­struc­tive, even in­trigu­ing. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors de­duce that about eighty-five per cent of the mind-grav­ity re­sponse to the in­tel­lec­tual draw­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor takes ori­gin in the ex­ist­ing grand uni­verse. This would sug­gest the pos­si­bil­ity that mind ac­tiv­i­ties are in­volved in con­nec­tion with the ob­serv­able phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties now in prog­ress through­out the realms of outer space. While this es­ti­mate is prob­a­bly far from ac­cu­rate, it ac­cords, in prin­ci­ple, with our be­lief that in­tel­li­gent force or­ga­niz­ers are at pres­ent di­rect­ing uni­verse evo­lu­tion in the space lev­els be­yond the pres­ent outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. What­ever the na­ture of this pos­tu­lated in­tel­li­gence, it is ap­par­ently not spirit-grav­ity re­spon­sive.

12:3.11But all these com­pu­ta­tions are at best es­ti­mates based on as­sumed laws. We think they are fairly re­li­able. Even if a few spirit be­ings were lo­cated in outer space, their col­lec­tive pres­ence would not markedly in­flu­ence cal­cu­la­tions in­volv­ing such enor­mous mea­sure­ments.

12:3.12Per­son­al­ity Grav­ity is non­com­putable. We rec­og­nize the cir­cuit, but we can­not mea­sure ei­ther qual­i­ta­tive or quan­ti­ta­tive re­al­i­ties re­spon­sive thereto.