Energy—Mind and Matter

42:1.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial, but the essence of life is spirit. The Fa­ther of spir­its is also the an­ces­tor of uni­verses; the eter­nal Fa­ther of the Orig­i­nal Son is also the eter­nity-source of the orig­i­nal pat­tern, the Isle of Par­a­dise.

42:1.2Mat­ter—en­ergy—for they are but di­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the same cos­mic re­al­ity, as a uni­verse phe­nom­e­non is in­her­ent in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. “In him all things con­sist.” Mat­ter may ap­pear to man­i­fest in­her­ent en­ergy and to ex­hibit self-con­tained pow­ers, but the lines of grav­ity in­volved in the en­er­gies con­cerned in all these phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena are de­rived from, and are de­pen­dent on, Par­a­dise. The ul­ti­ma­ton, the first mea­sur­able form of en­ergy, has Par­a­dise as its nu­cleus.

42:1.3There is in­nate in mat­ter and pres­ent in uni­ver­sal space a form of en­ergy not known on Uran­tia. When this dis­cov­ery is fi­nally made, then will physi­cists feel that they have solved, al­most at least, the mys­tery of mat­ter. And so will they have ap­proached one step nearer the Cre­ator; so will they have mas­tered one more phase of the di­vine tech­nique; but in no sense will they have found God, nei­ther will they have es­tab­lished the ex­is­tence of mat­ter or the op­er­a­tion of nat­u­ral laws apart from the cos­mic tech­nique of Par­a­dise and the mo­ti­vat­ing pur­pose of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

42:1.4Sub­se­quent to even still greater prog­ress and fur­ther dis­cov­er­ies, af­ter Uran­tia has ad­vanced im­mea­sur­ably in com­par­i­son with pres­ent knowl­edge, though you should gain con­trol of the en­ergy rev­o­lu­tions of the elec­tri­cal units of mat­ter to the ex­tent of mod­i­fy­ing their phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions—even af­ter all such pos­si­ble prog­ress, for­ever will sci­en­tists be pow­er­less to cre­ate one atom of mat­ter or to orig­i­nate one flash of en­ergy or ever to add to mat­ter that which we call life.

42:1.5The cre­ation of en­ergy and the be­stowal of life are the pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his as­so­ciate Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties. The river of en­ergy and life is a con­tin­u­ous out­pour­ing from the De­i­ties, the uni­ver­sal and united stream of Par­a­dise force go­ing forth to all space. This di­vine en­ergy per­vades all cre­ation. The force or­ga­niz­ers ini­ti­ate those changes and in­sti­tute those mod­i­fi­ca­tions of space-force which even­tu­ate in en­ergy; the power di­rec­tors trans­mute en­ergy into mat­ter; thus the ma­te­rial worlds are born. The Life Car­ri­ers ini­ti­ate those pro­cesses in dead mat­ter which we call life, ma­te­rial life. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors like­wise per­form through­out the tran­si­tion realms be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual worlds. The higher spirit Cre­ators in­au­gu­rate sim­i­lar pro­cesses in di­vine forms of en­ergy, and there en­sue the higher spirit forms of in­tel­li­gent life.

42:1.6En­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, fash­ioned af­ter the di­vine or­der. En­ergy—pure en­ergy—par­takes of the na­ture of the di­vine or­ga­ni­za­tion; it is fash­ioned af­ter the simil­i­tude of the three Gods em­braced in one, as they func­tion at the head­quar­ters of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And all force is cir­cuited in Par­a­dise, comes from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences and re­turns thereto, and is in essence a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the un­caused Cause—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and with­out the Fa­ther would not any­thing ex­ist that does ex­ist.

42:1.7Force de­rived from self-ex­is­tent De­ity is in it­self ever ex­is­tent. Force-en­ergy is im­per­ish­able, in­de­struc­tible; these man­i­fes­ta­tions of the In­fi­nite may be sub­ject to un­lim­ited trans­mu­ta­tion, end­less trans­for­ma­tion, and eter­nal meta­mor­pho­sis; but in no sense or de­gree, not even to the slight­est imag­in­able ex­tent, could they or ever shall they suf­fer ex­tinc­tion. But en­ergy, though spring­ing from the In­fi­nite, is not in­finitely man­i­fest; there are outer lim­its to the pres­ently con­ceived mas­ter uni­verse.

42:1.8En­ergy is eter­nal but not in­fi­nite; it ever re­sponds to the all-em­brac­ing grasp of In­fin­ity. For­ever force and en­ergy go on; hav­ing gone out from Par­a­dise, they must re­turn thereto, even if age upon age be re­quired for the com­ple­tion of the or­dained cir­cuit. That which is of Par­a­dise De­ity ori­gin can have only a Par­a­dise des­ti­na­tion or a De­ity des­tiny.

42:1.9And all this con­firms our be­lief in a cir­cu­lar, some­what lim­ited, but or­derly and far-flung uni­verse of uni­verses. If this were not true, then ev­i­dence of en­ergy de­ple­tion at some point would sooner or later ap­pear. All laws, or­ga­ni­za­tions, ad­min­is­tra­tion, and the tes­ti­mony of uni­verse ex­plor­ers—ev­ery­thing points to the ex­is­tence of an in­fi­nite God but, as yet, a fi­nite uni­verse, a cir­cu­lar­ity of end­less ex­is­tence, well-nigh lim­it­less but, nev­er­the­less, fi­nite in con­trast with in­fin­ity.