Relation of the Infinite Spirit to the Universe

9:3.1The Isle of Par­a­dise is the source and sub­stance of phys­i­cal grav­ity; and that should be suf­fi­cient to in­form you that grav­ity is one of the most real and eter­nally de­pend­able things in the whole phys­i­cal uni­verse of uni­verses. Grav­ity can­not be mod­i­fied or an­nulled ex­cept by the forces and en­er­gies con­jointly spon­sored by the Fa­ther and the Son, which have been in­trusted to, and are func­tion­ally as­so­ci­ated with, the per­son of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

9:3.2The In­fi­nite Spirit pos­sesses a unique and amaz­ing power—anti­grav­ity. This power is not func­tion­ally (ob­serv­ably) pres­ent in ei­ther the Fa­ther or the Son. This abil­ity to with­stand the pull of ma­te­rial grav­ity, in­her­ent in the Third Source, is re­vealed in the per­sonal re­ac­tions of the Con­joint Ac­tor to cer­tain phases of uni­verse re­la­tion­ships. And this unique at­tri­bute is trans­mis­si­ble to cer­tain of the higher per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

9:3.3Anti­grav­ity can an­nul grav­ity within a lo­cal frame; it does so by the ex­er­cise of equal force pres­ence. It op­er­ates only with ref­er­ence to ma­te­rial grav­ity, and it is not the ac­tion of mind. The grav­ity-re­sis­tant phe­nom­e­non of a gy­ro­scope is a fair il­lus­tra­tion of the ef­fect of anti­grav­ity but of no value to il­lus­trate the cause of anti­grav­ity.

9:3.4Still fur­ther does the Con­joint Ac­tor dis­play pow­ers which can tran­scend force and neu­tral­ize en­ergy. Such pow­ers op­er­ate by slow­ing down en­ergy to the point of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and by other tech­niques un­known to you.

9:3.5The Con­joint Cre­ator is not en­ergy nor the source of en­ergy nor the des­tiny of en­ergy; he is the ma­nip­u­la­tor of en­ergy. The Con­joint Cre­ator is ac­tion—mo­tion, change, mod­i­fi­ca­tion, co-or­di­na­tion, sta­bi­liza­tion, and equi­lib­rium. The en­er­gies sub­ject to the di­rect or in­di­rect con­trol of Par­a­dise are by na­ture re­spon­sive to the acts of the Third Source and Cen­ter and his man­i­fold agen­cies.

9:3.6The uni­verse of uni­verses is per­me­ated by the power-con­trol crea­tures of the Third Source and Cen­ter: phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, power di­rec­tors, power cen­ters, and other rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the God of Ac­tion who have to do with the reg­u­la­tion and sta­bi­liza­tion of phys­i­cal en­er­gies. These unique crea­tures of phys­i­cal func­tion all pos­sess vary­ing at­tri­butes of power con­trol, such as anti­grav­ity, which they uti­lize in their ef­forts to es­tab­lish the phys­i­cal equi­lib­rium of the mat­ter and en­er­gies of the grand uni­verse.

9:3.7All these ma­te­rial ac­tiv­i­ties of the God of Ac­tion ap­pear to re­late his func­tion to the Isle of Par­a­dise, and in­deed the agen­cies of power are all re­gard­ful of, even de­pen­dent on, the ab­so­lute­ness of the eter­nal Isle. But the Con­joint Ac­tor does not act for, or in re­sponse to, Par­a­dise. He acts, per­son­ally, for the Fa­ther and the Son. Par­a­dise is not a per­son. The non­per­sonal, im­per­sonal, and oth­er­wise not per­sonal do­ings of the Third Source and Cen­ter are all vo­li­tional acts of the Con­joint Ac­tor him­self; they are not re­flec­tions, deriva­tions, or reper­cus­sions of any­thing or any­body.

9:3.8Par­a­dise is the pat­tern of in­fin­ity; the God of Ac­tion is the ac­ti­va­tor of that pat­tern. Par­a­dise is the ma­te­rial ful­crum of in­fin­ity; the agen­cies of the Third Source and Cen­ter are the levers of in­tel­li­gence which mo­ti­vate the ma­te­rial level and in­ject spon­tane­ity into the mech­a­nism of the phys­i­cal cre­ation.