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Paper 29

The Universe Power Directors

Universal Censor

3. The Domain of Power Centers

29:3.1The Su­preme Power Cen­ters dis­tributed through­out the super­uni­verses num­ber, with their as­so­ciates and sub­or­di­nates, up­ward of ten bil­lion. And they are all in per­fect syn­chrony and com­plete li­ai­son with their Par­a­dise pro­gen­i­tors, the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors. The power con­trol of the grand uni­verse is thus in­trusted to the keep­ing and di­rec­tion of the Seven Mas­ter Spir­its, the cre­ators of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors.

29:3.2The Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and all their as­so­ciates, as­sis­tants, and sub­or­di­nates are for­ever ex­empt from ap­pre­hen­sion or in­ter­fer­ence by all the tri­bu­nals of all space; nei­ther are they sub­ject to the ad­min­is­tra­tive di­rec­tion ei­ther of the super­uni­verse gov­ern­ment of the An­cients of Days or of the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Cre­ator Sons.

29:3.3These power cen­ters and di­rec­tors are brought into be­ing by the chil­dren of the In­fi­nite Spirit. They are not ger­mane to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Sons of God, though they af­fil­i­ate with the Cre­ator Sons dur­ing the later epochs of uni­verse ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion. But the power cen­ters are in some way closely as­so­ci­ated with the cos­mic over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

29:3.4Power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers un­dergo no train­ing; they are all cre­ated in per­fec­tion and are in­her­ently per­fect in ac­tion. Never do they pass from one func­tion to an­other; al­ways do they serve as orig­i­nally as­signed. There is no evo­lu­tion in their ranks, and this is true of all seven di­vi­sions of both or­ders.

29:3.5Hav­ing no as­cen­dant past to re­vert to in mem­ory, power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers never play; they are thor­oughly busi­nesslike in all their ac­tions. They are al­ways on duty; there is no pro­vi­sion in the uni­ver­sal scheme for the in­ter­rup­tion of the phys­i­cal lines of en­ergy; never for a frac­tion of a sec­ond can these be­ings re­lin­quish their di­rect super­vi­sion of the en­ergy cir­cuits of time and space.

29:3.6The di­rec­tors, cen­ters, and con­trol­lers of power have noth­ing to do with any­thing in all cre­ation ex­cept power, ma­te­rial or semi­phys­i­cal en­ergy; they do not orig­i­nate it, but they do mod­ify, ma­nip­u­late, and di­rec­tion­ize it. Nei­ther do they have any­thing what­ever to do with phys­i­cal grav­ity ex­cept to re­sist its draw­ing power. Their re­la­tion to grav­ity is wholly neg­a­tive.

29:3.7The power cen­ters uti­lize vast mech­a­nisms and co-or­di­na­tions of a ma­te­rial or­der in li­ai­son with the liv­ing mech­a­nisms of the var­i­ous seg­re­gated en­ergy con­cen­tra­tions. Each in­di­vid­ual power cen­ter is con­sti­tuted in ex­actly one mil­lion units of func­tional con­trol, and these en­ergy-mod­i­fy­ing units are not sta­tion­ary as are the vi­tal or­gans of man’s phys­i­cal body; these “vi­tal or­gans” of power reg­u­la­tion are mo­bile and truly kalei­do­scopic in as­so­cia­tive pos­si­bil­i­ties.

29:3.8It is ut­terly be­yond my abil­ity to ex­plain the man­ner in which these liv­ing be­ings en­com­pass the ma­nip­u­la­tion and reg­u­la­tion of the mas­ter cir­cuits of uni­verse en­ergy. To un­der­take to in­form you fur­ther con­cern­ing the size and func­tion of these gi­gan­tic and al­most per­fectly ef­fi­cient power cen­ters, would only add to your con­fu­sion and con­ster­na­tion. They are both liv­ing and “per­sonal,” but they are be­yond your com­pre­hen­sion.

29:3.9Out­side of Ha­vona the Su­preme Power Cen­ters func­tion only on es­pe­cially con­structed (ar­chi­tec­tural) spheres or on oth­er­wise suit­ably con­sti­tuted space bod­ies. The ar­chi­tec­tural worlds are so con­structed that the liv­ing power cen­ters can act as se­lec­tive switches to di­rec­tion­ize, mod­ify, and con­cen­trate the en­er­gies of space as they pour over these spheres. They could not so func­tion on an or­di­nary evo­lu­tion­ary sun or planet. Cer­tain groups are also con­cerned in the heat­ing and other ma­te­rial ne­ces­si­ties of these spe­cial head­quar­ters worlds. And though it is be­yond the scope of Uran­tia knowl­edge, I may state that these or­ders of liv­ing power per­son­al­i­ties have much to do with the dis­tri­bu­tion of the light that shines with­out heat. They do not pro­duce this phe­nom­e­non, but they are con­cerned with its dis­sem­i­na­tion and di­rec­tion­iza­tion.

29:3.10The power cen­ters and their sub­or­di­nate con­trol­lers are as­signed to the work­ing of all of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies of or­ga­nized space. They work with the three ba­sic cur­rents of ten en­er­gies each. That is the en­ergy charge of or­ga­nized space; and or­ga­nized space is their do­main. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors have noth­ing what­ever to do with those tremen­dous ac­tions of force which are now tak­ing place out­side the pres­ent bound­aries of the seven super­uni­verses.

29:3.11The power cen­ters and con­trol­lers ex­ert per­fect con­trol over only seven of the ten forms of en­ergy con­tained in each ba­sic uni­verse cur­rent; those forms which are partly or wholly ex­empt from their con­trol must rep­re­sent the un­pre­dictable realms of en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion dom­i­nated by the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. If they ex­ert an in­flu­ence upon the pri­mor­dial forces of this Ab­so­lute, we are not cog­nizant of such func­tions, though there is some slight ev­i­dence which would war­rant the opin­ion that cer­tain of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are some­times au­to­mat­i­cally re­ac­tive to cer­tain im­pulses of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

29:3.12These liv­ing power mech­a­nisms are not con­sciously re­lated to the mas­ter uni­verse en­ergy over­con­trol of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, but we sur­mise that their en­tire and al­most per­fect scheme of power di­rec­tion is in some un­known man­ner sub­or­di­nated to this super­grav­ity pres­ence. In any lo­cal en­ergy sit­u­a­tion the cen­ters and con­trol­lers ex­ert near-su­prem­acy, but they are al­ways con­scious of the super­en­ergy pres­ence and the un­rec­og­niz­able per­for­mance of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.