The Seven Superuniverses

15:8.1The head­quar­ters spheres of the super­uni­verses are so con­structed that they are able to func­tion as ef­fi­cient power-en­ergy reg­u­la­tors for their var­i­ous sec­tors, serv­ing as fo­cal points for the di­rec­tion­iza­tion of en­ergy to their com­po­nent lo­cal uni­verses. They ex­ert a pow­er­ful in­flu­ence over the bal­ance and con­trol of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies cir­cu­lat­ing through or­ga­nized space.

15:8.2Fur­ther reg­u­la­tive func­tions are per­formed by the super­uni­verse power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, liv­ing and semiliv­ing in­tel­li­gent en­ti­ties con­sti­tuted for this ex­press pur­pose. These power cen­ters and con­trol­lers are dif­fi­cult of un­der­stand­ing; the lower or­ders are not vo­li­tional, they do not pos­sess will, they do not choose, their func­tions are very in­tel­li­gent but ap­par­ently au­to­matic and in­her­ent in their highly spe­cial­ized or­ga­ni­za­tion. The power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verses as­sume di­rec­tion and par­tial con­trol of the thirty en­ergy sys­tems which com­prise the gravita do­main. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy cir­cuits ad­min­is­tered by the power cen­ters of Uversa re­quire a lit­tle over 968 mil­lion years to com­plete the en­cir­clement of the super­uni­verse.

15:8.3Evolv­ing en­ergy has sub­stance; it has weight, al­though weight is al­ways rel­a­tive, de­pend­ing on rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity, mass, and anti­grav­ity. Mass in mat­ter tends to re­tard ve­loc­ity in en­ergy; and the any­where-pres­ent ve­loc­ity of en­ergy rep­re­sents: the ini­tial en­dow­ment of ve­loc­ity, mi­nus re­tar­da­tion by mass en­coun­tered in tran­sit, plus the reg­u­la­tory func­tion of the liv­ing en­ergy con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verse and the phys­i­cal in­flu­ence of near-by highly heated or heav­ily charged bod­ies.

15:8.4The uni­ver­sal plan for the main­te­nance of equi­lib­rium be­tween mat­ter and en­ergy ne­ces­si­tates the ev­er­last­ing mak­ing and un­mak­ing of the lesser ma­te­rial units. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors have the abil­ity to con­dense and de­tain, or to ex­pand and lib­er­ate, vary­ing quan­ti­ties of en­ergy.

15:8.5Given a suf­fi­cient du­ra­tion of re­tard­ing in­flu­ence, grav­ity would even­tu­ally con­vert all en­ergy into mat­ter were it not for two fac­tors: First, be­cause of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of the en­ergy con­trol­lers, and sec­ond, be­cause or­ga­nized mat­ter tends to dis­in­te­grate un­der cer­tain con­di­tions found in very hot stars and un­der cer­tain pe­cu­liar con­di­tions in space near highly en­er­gized cold bod­ies of con­densed mat­ter.

15:8.6When mass be­comes over­ag­gre­gated and threat­ens to un­bal­ance en­ergy, to de­plete the phys­i­cal power cir­cuits, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers in­ter­vene un­less grav­ity’s own fur­ther ten­dency to over­ma­te­ri­al­ize en­ergy is de­feated by the oc­cur­rence of a col­li­sion among the dead gi­ants of space, thus in an in­stant com­pletely dis­si­pat­ing the cu­mu­la­tive col­lec­tions of grav­ity. In these col­li­sional episodes enor­mous masses of mat­ter are sud­denly con­verted into the rarest form of en­ergy, and the strug­gle for uni­ver­sal equi­lib­rium is be­gun anew. Even­tu­ally the larger phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sta­bi­lized, be­come phys­i­cally set­tled, and are swung into the bal­anced and es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses. Sub­se­quent to this event no more col­li­sions or other dev­as­tat­ing catas­tro­phes will oc­cur in such es­tab­lished sys­tems.

15:8.7Dur­ing the times of plus en­ergy there are power dis­tur­bances and heat fluc­tu­a­tions ac­com­pa­nied by elec­tri­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions. Dur­ing times of mi­nus en­ergy there are in­creased ten­den­cies for mat­ter to ag­gre­gate, con­dense, and to get out of con­trol in the more del­i­cately bal­anced cir­cuits, with re­sul­tant tidal or col­li­sional ad­just­ments which quickly re­store the bal­ance be­tween cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy and more lit­er­ally sta­bi­lized mat­ter. To fore­cast and oth­er­wise to un­der­stand such likely be­hav­ior of the blaz­ing suns and the dark is­lands of space is one of the tasks of the ce­les­tial star ob­servers.

15:8.8We are able to rec­og­nize most of the laws gov­ern­ing uni­verse equi­lib­rium and to pre­dict much per­tain­ing to uni­verse sta­bil­ity. Prac­ti­cally, our fore­casts are re­li­able, but we are al­ways con­fronted by cer­tain forces which are not wholly amenable to the laws of en­ergy con­trol and mat­ter be­hav­ior known to us. The pre­dictabil­ity of all phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult as we pro­ceed out­ward in the uni­verses from Par­a­dise. As we pass be­yond the bor­ders of the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Par­a­dise Rulers, we are con­fronted with in­creas­ing in­abil­ity to reckon in ac­cor­dance with the stan­dards es­tab­lished and the ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired in con­nec­tion with ob­ser­va­tions hav­ing ex­clu­sively to do with the phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena of the near-by as­tro­nomic sys­tems. Even in the realms of the seven super­uni­verses we are liv­ing in the midst of force ac­tions and en­ergy re­ac­tions which per­vade all our do­mains and ex­tend in uni­fied equi­lib­rium on through all re­gions of outer space.

15:8.9The far­ther out we go, the more cer­tainly we en­counter those vari­a­tional and un­pre­dictable phe­nom­ena which are so unerringly char­ac­ter­is­tic of the un­fath­omable pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties. And these phe­nom­ena must be in­dica­tive of some uni­ver­sal over­con­trol of all things.

15:8.10The super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is ap­par­ently now run­ning down; the outer uni­verses seem to be wind­ing up for un­par­al­leled fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties; the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse is eter­nally sta­bi­lized. Grav­ity and ab­sence of heat (cold) or­ga­nize and hold mat­ter to­gether; heat and anti­grav­ity dis­rupt mat­ter and dis­si­pate en­ergy. The liv­ing power di­rec­tors and force or­ga­niz­ers are the se­cret of the spe­cial con­trol and in­tel­li­gent di­rec­tion of the end­less meta­mor­phoses of uni­verse mak­ing, un­mak­ing, and re­mak­ing. Neb­u­lae may dis­perse, suns burn out, sys­tems van­ish, and plan­ets per­ish, but the uni­verses do not run down.