Energy—Mind and Matter

42:0.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial in the sense that en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ex­is­tence, and pure en­ergy is con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Force, en­ergy, is the one thing which stands as an ev­er­last­ing mon­u­ment demon­strat­ing and prov­ing the ex­is­tence and pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This vast stream of en­ergy pro­ceed­ing from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences has never lapsed, never failed; there has never been a break in the in­fi­nite up­hold­ing.

42:0.2The ma­nip­u­la­tion of uni­verse en­ergy is ever in ac­cor­dance with the per­sonal will and the all-wise man­dates of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. This per­sonal con­trol of man­i­fested power and cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy is mod­i­fied by the co-or­di­nate acts and de­ci­sions of the Eter­nal Son, as well as by the united pur­poses of the Son and the Fa­ther ex­e­cuted by the Con­joint Ac­tor. These di­vine be­ings act per­son­ally and as in­di­vid­u­als; they also func­tion in the per­sons and pow­ers of an al­most un­lim­ited num­ber of sub­or­di­nates, each var­i­ously ex­pres­sive of the eter­nal and di­vine pur­pose in the uni­verse of uni­verses. But these func­tional and pro­vi­sional mod­i­fi­ca­tions or trans­mu­ta­tions of di­vine power in no way lessen the truth of the state­ment that all force-en­ergy is un­der the ul­ti­mate con­trol of a per­sonal God res­i­dent at the cen­ter of all things.