Energy—Mind and Matter

42:11.1In the eval­u­a­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of mind it should be re­mem­bered that the uni­verse is nei­ther me­chan­i­cal nor mag­i­cal; it is a cre­ation of mind and a mech­a­nism of law. But while in prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tion the laws of na­ture op­er­ate in what seems to be the dual realms of the phys­i­cal and the spir­i­tual, in re­al­ity they are one. The First Source and Cen­ter is the pri­mal cause of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and at the same time the first and fi­nal Fa­ther of all spir­its. The Par­a­dise Fa­ther ap­pears per­son­ally in the ex­tra-Ha­vona uni­verses only as pure en­ergy and pure spirit—as the Thought Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar frag­men­ta­tions.

42:11.2Mech­a­nisms do not ab­so­lutely dom­i­nate the to­tal cre­ation; the uni­verse of uni­verses in toto is mind planned, mind made, and mind ad­min­is­tered. But the di­vine mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses is al­to­gether too per­fect for the sci­en­tific meth­ods of the fi­nite mind of man to dis­cern even a trace of the dom­i­nance of the in­fi­nite mind. For this cre­at­ing, con­trol­ling, and up­hold­ing mind is nei­ther ma­te­rial mind nor crea­ture mind; it is spirit-mind func­tion­ing on and from cre­ator lev­els of di­vine re­al­ity.

42:11.3The abil­ity to dis­cern and dis­cover mind in uni­verse mech­a­nisms de­pends en­tirely on the abil­ity, scope, and ca­pac­ity of the in­ves­ti­gat­ing mind en­gaged in such a task of ob­ser­va­tion. Time-space minds, or­ga­nized out of the en­er­gies of time and space, are sub­ject to the mech­a­nisms of time and space.

42:11.4Mo­tion and uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion are twin facets of the im­per­sonal time-space mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The lev­els of grav­ity re­sponse for spirit, mind, and mat­ter are quite in­de­pen­dent of time, but only true spirit lev­els of re­al­ity are in­de­pen­dent of space (non­spa­tial). The higher mind lev­els of the uni­verse—the spirit-mind lev­els—may also be non­spa­tial, but the lev­els of ma­te­rial mind, such as hu­man mind, are re­spon­sive to the in­ter­ac­tions of uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion, los­ing this re­sponse only in pro­por­tion to spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Spirit-re­al­ity lev­els are rec­og­nized by their spirit con­tent, and spir­i­tu­al­ity in time and space is mea­sured in­versely to the lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse.

42:11.5Lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse is a quan­ti­ta­tive mea­sure of non­spirit en­ergy. All mass—or­ga­nized en­ergy—is sub­ject to this grasp ex­cept as mo­tion and mind act upon it. Lin­ear grav­ity is the short-range co­he­sive force of the macro­cos­mos some­what as the forces of in­tra-atomic co­he­sion are the short-range forces of the mi­cro­cos­mos. Phys­i­cal ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy, or­ga­nized as so-called mat­ter, can­not tra­verse space with­out af­fect­ing lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse. Al­though such grav­ity re­sponse is di­rectly pro­por­tional to mass, it is so mod­i­fied by in­ter­ven­ing space that the fi­nal re­sult is no more than roughly ap­prox­i­mated when ex­pressed as in­versely ac­cord­ing to the square of the dis­tance. Space even­tu­ally con­quers lin­ear grav­i­ta­tion be­cause of the pres­ence therein of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of nu­mer­ous super­ma­te­rial forces which op­er­ate to neu­tral­ize grav­ity ac­tion and all re­sponses thereto.

42:11.6Ex­tremely com­plex and highly au­to­matic-ap­pear­ing cos­mic mech­a­nisms al­ways tend to con­ceal the pres­ence of the orig­i­na­tive or cre­ative in­dwelling mind from any and all in­tel­li­gences very far be­low the uni­verse lev­els of the na­ture and ca­pac­ity of the mech­a­nism it­self. There­fore is it in­ev­i­ta­ble that the higher uni­verse mech­a­nisms must ap­pear to be mind­less to the lower or­ders of crea­tures. The only pos­si­ble ex­cep­tion to such a con­clu­sion would be the im­pli­ca­tion of mind­ed­ness in the amaz­ing phe­nom­e­non of an ap­par­ently self-main­tain­ing uni­verse—but that is a mat­ter of phi­los­o­phy rather than one of ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

42:11.7Since mind co-or­di­nates the uni­verse, fix­ity of mech­a­nisms is nonex­is­tent. The phe­nom­e­non of pro­gres­sive evo­lu­tion as­so­ci­ated with cos­mic self-main­te­nance is uni­ver­sal. The evo­lu­tion­ary ca­pac­ity of the uni­verse is in­ex­haustible in the in­fin­ity of spon­tane­ity. Prog­ress to­wards har­mo­nious unity, a grow­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial syn­the­sis super­im­posed on an ever-in­creas­ing com­plex­ity of re­la­tion­ships, could be ef­fected only by a pur­po­sive and dom­i­nant mind.

42:11.8The higher the uni­verse mind as­so­ci­ated with any uni­verse phe­nom­e­non, the more dif­fi­cult it is for the lower types of mind to dis­cover it. And since the mind of the uni­verse mech­a­nism is cre­ative spirit-mind (even the mind­ed­ness of the In­fi­nite), it can never be dis­cov­ered or dis­cerned by the lower-level minds of the uni­verse, much less by the low­est mind of all, the hu­man. The evolv­ing an­i­mal mind, while nat­u­rally God-seek­ing, is not alone and of it­self in­her­ently God-know­ing.