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Every paragraph the index cites under absoluta, once, in the order of the book. Beside each stand the entries that cite it.

0:6.51. Cos­mic force em­braces all en­er­gies de­riv­ing from the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute but which are as yet un­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity.

4:1.9These Ab­so­lutes must be the not-fully-re­vealed pres­ences abroad in the uni­verse which, in the phe­nom­ena of space po­tency and in the func­tion of other super­ul­ti­mates, ren­der it im­pos­si­ble for physi­cists, philoso­phers, or even re­li­gion­ists to pre­dict with cer­tainty as to just how the pri­mor­dials of force, con­cept, or spirit will re­spond to de­mands made in a com­plex re­al­ity sit­u­a­tion in­volv­ing su­preme ad­just­ments and ul­ti­mate val­ues.

11:1.4The Fa­ther is al­ways to be found at this cen­tral lo­ca­tion. Did he move, uni­ver­sal pan­de­mo­nium would be pre­cip­i­tated, for there con­verge in him at this res­i­den­tial cen­ter the uni­ver­sal lines of grav­ity from the ends of cre­ation. Whether we trace the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit back through the uni­verses or fol­low the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties as they jour­ney in­ward to the Fa­ther; whether we trace the lines of ma­te­rial grav­ity to nether Par­a­dise or fol­low the in­surg­ing cy­cles of cos­mic force; whether we trace the lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity to the Eter­nal Son or fol­low the in­ward pro­ces­sional of the Par­a­dise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind cir­cuits or fol­low the tril­lions upon tril­lions of ce­les­tial be­ings who spring from the In­fi­nite Spirit—by any of these ob­ser­va­tions or by all of them we are led di­rectly back to the Fa­ther’s pres­ence, to his cen­tral abode. Here is God per­son­ally, lit­er­ally, and ac­tu­ally pres­ent. And from his in­fi­nite be­ing there flow the flood-streams of life, en­ergy, and per­son­al­ity to all uni­verses.

11:5.1Con­cern­ing nether Par­a­dise, we know only that which is re­vealed; per­son­al­i­ties do not so­journ there. It has noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of spirit in­tel­li­gences, nor does the De­ity Ab­so­lute there func­tion. We are in­formed that all phys­i­cal-en­ergy and cos­mic-force cir­cuits have their ori­gin on nether Par­a­dise, and that it is con­sti­tuted as fol­lows:

11:5.2–3 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

11:5.21. Di­rectly un­der­neath the lo­ca­tion of the Trin­ity, in the cen­tral por­tion of nether Par­a­dise, is the un­known and un­re­vealed Zone of In­fin­ity.

11:5.32. This Zone is im­me­di­ately sur­rounded by an un­named area.

11:5.43. Oc­cu­py­ing the outer mar­gins of the un­der sur­face is a re­gion hav­ing mainly to do with space po­tency and force-en­ergy. The ac­tiv­i­ties of this vast el­lip­ti­cal force cen­ter are not iden­ti­fi­able with the known func­tions of any tri­unity, but the pri­mor­dial force-charge of space ap­pears to be fo­cal­ized in this area. This cen­ter con­sists of three con­cen­tric el­lip­ti­cal zones: The in­ner­most is the fo­cal point of the force-en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of Par­a­dise it­self; the out­er­most may pos­si­bly be iden­ti­fied with the func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, but we are not cer­tain con­cern­ing the space func­tions of the mid-zone.

11:5.5The in­ner zone of this force cen­ter seems to act as a gi­gan­tic heart whose pul­sa­tions di­rect cur­rents to the out­er­most bor­ders of phys­i­cal space. It di­rects and mod­i­fies force-en­er­gies but hardly drives them. The re­al­ity pres­sure-pres­ence of this pri­mal force is def­i­nitely greater at the north end of the Par­a­dise cen­ter than in the south­ern re­gions; this is a uni­formly reg­is­tered dif­fer­ence. The mother force of space seems to flow in at the south and out at the north through the op­er­a­tion of some un­known cir­cu­la­tory sys­tem which is con­cerned with the dif­fu­sion of this ba­sic form of force-en­ergy. From time to time there are also noted dif­fer­ences in the east-west pres­sures. The forces em­a­nat­ing from this zone are not re­spon­sive to ob­serv­able phys­i­cal grav­ity but are al­ways obe­di­ent to Par­a­dise grav­ity.

11:5.6–7 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

11:5.6The mid-zone of the force cen­ter im­me­di­ately sur­rounds this area. This mid-zone ap­pears to be static ex­cept that it ex­pands and con­tracts through three cy­cles of ac­tiv­ity. The least of these pul­sa­tions is in an east-west di­rec­tion, the next in a north-south di­rec­tion, while the great­est fluc­tu­a­tion is in ev­ery di­rec­tion, a gen­er­al­ized ex­pan­sion and con­trac­tion. The func­tion of this mid-area has never been re­ally iden­ti­fied, but it must have some­thing to do with re­cip­ro­cal ad­just­ment be­tween the in­ner and the outer zones of the force cen­ter. It is be­lieved by many that the mid-zone is the con­trol mech­a­nism of the midspace or quiet zones which sep­a­rate the suc­ces­sive space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse, but no ev­i­dence or rev­e­la­tion con­firms this. This in­fer­ence is de­rived from the knowl­edge that this mid-area is in some man­ner re­lated to the func­tion­ing of the non­per­vaded-space mech­a­nism of the mas­ter uni­verse.

11:5.7The outer zone is the largest and most ac­tive of the three con­cen­tric and el­lip­ti­cal belts of uniden­ti­fied space po­ten­tial. This area is the site of unimag­ined ac­tiv­i­ties, the cen­tral cir­cuit point of em­a­na­tions which pro­ceed space­ward in ev­ery di­rec­tion to the out­er­most bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses and on be­yond to over­spread the enor­mous and in­com­pre­hen­si­ble do­mains of all outer space. This space pres­ence is en­tirely im­per­sonal not­with­stand­ing that in some undis­closed man­ner it seems to be in­di­rectly re­spon­sive to the will and man­dates of the in­fi­nite De­i­ties when act­ing as the Trin­ity. This is be­lieved to be the cen­tral fo­cal­iza­tion, the Par­a­dise cen­ter, of the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

11:5.8All forms of force and all phases of en­ergy seem to be en­cir­cuited; they cir­cu­late through­out the uni­verses and re­turn by def­i­nite routes. But with the em­a­na­tions of the ac­ti­vated zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute there ap­pears to be ei­ther an out­go­ing or an in­com­ing—never both si­mul­ta­ne­ously. This outer zone pul­sates in age­long cy­cles of gi­gan­tic pro­por­tions. For a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years the space-force of this cen­ter is out­go­ing; then for a sim­i­lar length of time it will be in­com­ing. And the space-force man­i­fes­ta­tions of this cen­ter are uni­ver­sal; they ex­tend through­out all per­vad­able space.

11:5.9All phys­i­cal force, en­ergy, and mat­ter are one. All force-en­ergy orig­i­nally pro­ceeded from nether Par­a­dise and will even­tu­ally re­turn thereto fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its space cir­cuit. But the en­er­gies and ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions of the uni­verse of uni­verses did not all come from nether Par­a­dise in their pres­ent phe­nom­e­nal states; space is the womb of sev­eral forms of mat­ter and pre­mat­ter. Though the outer zone of the Par­a­dise force cen­ter is the source of space-en­er­gies, space does not orig­i­nate there. Space is not force, en­ergy, or power. Nor do the pul­sa­tions of this zone ac­count for the res­pi­ra­tion of space, but the in­com­ing and out­go­ing phases of this zone are syn­chro­nized with the two-bil­lion-year ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cles of space.

11:7.8A space level thus func­tions as an el­lip­ti­cal re­gion of mo­tion sur­rounded on all sides by rel­a­tive mo­tion­less­ness. Such re­la­tion­ships of mo­tion and qui­es­cence con­sti­tute a curved space path of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion which is uni­ver­sally fol­lowed by cos­mic force and emer­gent en­ergy as they cir­cle for­ever around the Isle of Par­a­dise.

11:8.51. Pre­grav­ity Stages (Force). This is the first step in the in­di­vid­u­a­tion of space po­tency into the pre-en­ergy forms of cos­mic force. This state is anal­o­gous to the con­cept of the pri­mor­dial force-charge of space, some­times called pure en­ergy or seg­re­gata.

11:8.6–7 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

11:8.62. Grav­ity Stages (En­ergy). This mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the force-charge of space is pro­duced by the ac­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. It sig­nal­izes the ap­pear­ance of en­ergy sys­tems re­spon­sive to the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. This emer­gent en­ergy is orig­i­nally neu­tral but con­se­quent upon fur­ther meta­mor­pho­sis will ex­hibit the so-called neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive qual­i­ties. We des­ig­nate these stages ul­ti­mata.

11:8.73. Post­grav­ity Stages (Uni­verse Power). In this stage, en­ergy-mat­ter dis­closes re­sponse to the con­trol of lin­ear grav­ity. In the cen­tral uni­verse these phys­i­cal sys­tems are three­fold or­ga­ni­za­tions known as tri­ata. They are the super­power mother sys­tems of the cre­ations of time and space. The phys­i­cal sys­tems of the super­uni­verses are mo­bi­lized by the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates. These ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions are dual in con­sti­tu­tion and are known as gravita. The dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona are nei­ther tri­ata nor gravita, and their draw­ing power dis­closes both forms of phys­i­cal grav­ity, lin­ear and ab­so­lute.

11:8.8Space po­tency is not sub­ject to the in­ter­ac­tions of any form of grav­i­ta­tion. This pri­mal en­dow­ment of Par­a­dise is not an ac­tual level of re­al­ity, but it is an­ces­tral to all rel­a­tive func­tional non­spirit re­al­i­ties—all man­i­fes­ta­tions of force-en­ergy and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of power and mat­ter. Space po­tency is a term dif­fi­cult to de­fine. It does not mean that which is an­ces­tral to space; its mean­ing should con­vey the idea of the po­ten­cies and po­ten­tials ex­is­tent within space. It may be roughly con­ceived to in­clude all those ab­so­lute in­flu­ences and po­ten­tials which em­anate from Par­a­dise and con­sti­tute the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

12:2.4The Uversa star stu­dents ob­serve that the grand uni­verse is sur­rounded by the an­ces­tors of a se­ries of starry and plan­e­tary clus­ters which com­pletely en­cir­cle the pres­ent in­hab­ited cre­ation as con­cen­tric rings of outer uni­verses upon uni­verses. The physi­cists of Uversa cal­cu­late that the en­ergy and mat­ter of these outer and un­charted re­gions al­ready equal many times the to­tal ma­te­rial mass and en­ergy charge em­braced in all seven super­uni­verses. We are in­formed that the meta­mor­pho­sis of cos­mic force in these outer space lev­els is a func­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. We also know that these forces are an­ces­tral to those phys­i­cal en­er­gies which at pres­ent ac­ti­vate the grand uni­verse. The Or­von­ton power di­rec­tors, how­ever, have noth­ing to do with these far-dis­tant realms, nei­ther are the en­ergy move­ments therein dis­cernibly con­nected with the power cir­cuits of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations.

12:8.2The be­stowal of cos­mic force, the do­main of cos­mic grav­ity, is the func­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise. All orig­i­nal force-en­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, and the mat­ter for the mak­ing of un­told uni­verses now cir­cu­lates through­out the mas­ter uni­verse in the form of a super­grav­ity pres­ence which con­sti­tutes the force-charge of per­vaded space.

15:4.1While cre­ation and uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion re­main for­ever un­der the con­trol of the in­fi­nite Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, the whole phe­nom­e­non pro­ceeds in ac­cor­dance with an or­dained tech­nique and in con­for­mity to the grav­ity laws of force, en­ergy, and mat­ter. But there is some­thing of mys­tery as­so­ci­ated with the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space; we quite un­der­stand the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations from the ul­ti­ma­tonic stage for­ward, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the cos­mic an­ces­try of the ul­ti­ma­tons. We are con­fi­dent that these an­ces­tral forces have a Par­a­dise ori­gin be­cause they for­ever swing through per­vaded space in the ex­act gi­gan­tic out­lines of Par­a­dise. Though non­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity, this force-charge of space, the an­ces­tor of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, does al­ways re­spond to the pres­ence of nether Par­a­dise, be­ing ap­par­ently cir­cuited in and out of the nether Par­a­dise cen­ter.

15:4.2The Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers trans­mute space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force and evolve this pre­ma­te­rial po­ten­tial into the pri­mary and sec­ondary en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal re­al­ity. When this en­ergy at­tains grav­ity-re­spond­ing lev­els, the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse regime ap­pear upon the scene and be­gin their never-end­ing ma­nip­u­la­tions de­signed to es­tab­lish the man­i­fold power cir­cuits and en­ergy chan­nels of the uni­verses of time and space. Thus does phys­i­cal mat­ter ap­pear in space, and so is the stage set for the in­au­gu­ra­tion of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

15:4.3This seg­men­ta­tion of en­ergy is a phe­nom­e­non which has never been solved by the physi­cists of Neb­a­don. Their chief dif­fi­culty lies in the rel­a­tive in­ac­ces­si­bil­ity of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers, for the liv­ing power di­rec­tors, though they are com­pe­tent to deal with space-en­ergy, do not have the least con­cep­tion of the ori­gin of the en­er­gies they so skill­fully and in­tel­li­gently ma­nip­u­late.

15:4.4Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers are neb­u­lae orig­i­na­tors; they are able to ini­ti­ate about their space pres­ence the tremen­dous cy­clones of force which, when once started, can never be stopped or lim­ited un­til the all-per­vad­ing forces are mo­bi­lized for the even­tual ap­pear­ance of the ul­ti­ma­tonic units of uni­verse mat­ter. Thus are brought into be­ing the spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the di­rect-ori­gin suns and their var­ied sys­tems. In outer space there may be seen ten dif­fer­ent forms of neb­u­lae, phases of pri­mary uni­verse evo­lu­tion, and these vast en­ergy wheels had the same ori­gin as did those in the seven super­uni­verses.

29:4.25In some re­spects the en­ergy trans­form­ers are the most re­mark­able and mys­te­ri­ous of all semi­ma­te­rial liv­ing crea­tures. They are in some un­known man­ner phys­i­cally dif­fer­en­ti­ated, and by vary­ing their li­ai­son re­la­tion­ships, they are able to ex­ert a pro­found in­flu­ence upon the en­ergy which passes through their as­so­ci­ated pres­ences. The sta­tus of the phys­i­cal realms seems to un­dergo a trans­for­ma­tion un­der their skill­ful ma­nip­u­la­tion. They can and do change the phys­i­cal form of the en­er­gies of space. With the aid of their fel­low con­trol­lers they are ac­tu­ally able to change the form and po­ten­tial of twenty-seven of the thirty phys­i­cal en­er­gies of the super­uni­verse power charge. That three of these en­er­gies are be­yond their con­trol proves that they are not in­stru­men­tal­i­ties of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

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.

42:2.1It is in­deed dif­fi­cult to find suit­able words in the En­glish lan­guage whereby to des­ig­nate and where­with to de­scribe the var­i­ous lev­els of force and en­ergy—phys­i­cal, mindal, or spir­i­tual. These nar­ra­tives can­not al­to­gether fol­low your ac­cepted def­i­ni­tions of force, en­ergy, and power. There is such paucity of lan­guage that we must use these terms in mul­ti­ple mean­ings. In this pa­per, for ex­am­ple, the word en­ergy is used to de­note all phases and forms of phe­nom­e­nal mo­tion, ac­tion, and po­ten­tial, while force is ap­plied to the pre­grav­ity, and power to the post­grav­ity, stages of en­ergy.

42:2.2I will, how­ever, en­deavor to lessen con­cep­tual con­fu­sion by sug­gest­ing the ad­vis­abil­ity of adopt­ing the fol­low­ing clas­si­fi­ca­tion for cos­mic force, emer­gent en­ergy, and uni­verse power—phys­i­cal en­ergy:

42:2.31. Space po­tency. This is the un­ques­tioned free space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. The ex­ten­sion of this con­cept con­notes the uni­verse force-space po­ten­tial in­her­ent in the func­tional to­tal­ity of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, while the in­ten­sion of this con­cept im­plies the to­tal­ity of cos­mic re­al­ity—uni­verses—which em­anated eter­ni­ty­wise from the never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing, never-mov­ing, never-chang­ing Isle of Par­a­dise.

42:2.4The phe­nom­ena in­dige­nous to the nether side of Par­a­dise prob­a­bly em­brace three zones of ab­so­lute force pres­ence and per­for­mance: the ful­cral zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the zone of the Isle of Par­a­dise it­self, and the in­ter­ven­ing zone of cer­tain uniden­ti­fied equal­iz­ing and com­pen­sat­ing agen­cies or func­tions. These tri­con­cen­tric zones are the cen­trum of the Par­a­dise cy­cle of cos­mic re­al­ity.

42:2.5Space po­tency is a pre­re­al­ity; it is the do­main of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and is re­spon­sive only to the per­sonal grasp of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, not­with­stand­ing that it is seem­ingly mod­i­fi­able by the pres­ence of the Pri­mary Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.6On Uversa, space po­tency is spo­ken of as AB­SO­LUTA.

42:2.72. Pri­mor­dial force. This rep­re­sents the first ba­sic change in space po­tency and may be one of the nether Par­a­dise func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We know that the space pres­ence go­ing out from nether Par­a­dise is mod­i­fied in some man­ner from that which is in­com­ing. But re­gard­less of any such pos­si­ble re­la­tion­ships, the openly rec­og­nized trans­mu­ta­tion of space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force is the pri­mary dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing func­tion of the ten­sion-pres­ence of the liv­ing Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.8Pas­sive and po­ten­tial force be­comes ac­tive and pri­mor­dial in re­sponse to the re­sis­tance af­forded by the space pres­ence of the Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers. Force is now emerg­ing from the ex­clu­sive do­main of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute into the realms of mul­ti­ple re­sponse—re­sponse to cer­tain pri­mal mo­tions ini­ti­ated by the God of Ac­tion and there­upon to cer­tain com­pen­sat­ing mo­tions em­a­nat­ing from the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. Pri­mor­dial force is seem­ingly re­ac­tive to tran­scen­den­tal cau­sa­tion in pro­por­tion to ab­so­lute­ness.

42:2.9Pri­mor­dial force is some­times spo­ken of as pure en­ergy; on Uversa we re­fer to it as SEG­RE­GATA.

42:4.5Through­out all space, cold and other in­flu­ences are at work cre­atively or­ga­niz­ing ul­ti­ma­tons into elec­trons. Heat is the mea­sure­ment of elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity, while cold merely sig­ni­fies ab­sence of heat—com­par­a­tive en­ergy rest—the sta­tus of the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space pro­vided nei­ther emer­gent en­ergy nor or­ga­nized mat­ter were pres­ent and re­spond­ing to grav­ity.

42:5.42. Ul­ti­ma­tonic rays. The as­sem­bly of en­ergy into the minute spheres of the ul­ti­ma­tons oc­ca­sions vi­bra­tions in the con­tent of space which are dis­cern­i­ble and mea­sur­able. And long be­fore physi­cists ever dis­cover the ul­ti­ma­ton, they will un­doubt­edly de­tect the phe­nom­ena of these rays as they shower in upon Uran­tia. These short and pow­er­ful rays rep­re­sent the ini­tial ac­tiv­ity of the ul­ti­ma­tons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer to­wards the elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter. As the ul­ti­ma­tons ag­gre­gate into elec­trons, con­den­sa­tion oc­curs with a con­se­quent stor­age of en­ergy.

42:5.5–13 · nine paragraphs not cited here ·

42:5.53. The short space rays. These are the short­est of all purely elec­tronic vi­bra­tions and rep­re­sent the preatomic stage of this form of mat­ter. These rays re­quire ex­traor­di­nar­ily high or low tem­per­a­tures for their pro­duc­tion. There are two sorts of these space rays: one at­ten­dant upon the birth of atoms and the other in­dica­tive of atomic dis­rup­tion. They em­anate in the largest quan­ti­ties from the dens­est plane of the super­uni­verse, the Milky Way, which is also the dens­est plane of the outer uni­verses.

42:5.64. The elec­tronic stage. This stage of en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion in the seven super­uni­verses. When elec­trons pass from higher to lower en­ergy lev­els of or­bital rev­o­lu­tion, quanta are al­ways given off. Or­bital shift­ing of elec­trons re­sults in the ejec­tion or the ab­sorp­tion of very def­i­nite and uni­form mea­sur­able par­ti­cles of light-en­ergy, while the in­di­vid­ual elec­tron al­ways gives up a par­ti­cle of light-en­ergy when sub­jected to col­li­sion. Wave­like en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions also at­tend upon the per­for­mances of the pos­i­tive bod­ies and the other mem­bers of the elec­tronic stage.

42:5.75. Gamma rays—those em­a­na­tions which char­ac­ter­ize the spon­ta­neous dis­so­ci­a­tion of atomic mat­ter. The best il­lus­tra­tion of this form of elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity is in the phe­nom­ena as­so­ci­ated with ra­dium dis­in­te­gra­tion.

42:5.86. The X-ray group. The next step in the slow­ing down of the elec­tron yields the var­i­ous forms of so­lar X rays to­gether with ar­ti­fi­cially gen­er­ated X rays. The elec­tronic charge cre­ates an elec­tric field; move­ment gives rise to an elec­tric cur­rent; the cur­rent pro­duces a mag­netic field. When an elec­tron is sud­denly stopped, the re­sul­tant elec­tro­mag­netic com­mo­tion pro­duces the X ray; the X ray is that dis­tur­bance. The so­lar X rays are iden­ti­cal with those which are me­chan­i­cally gen­er­ated for ex­plor­ing the in­te­rior of the hu­man body ex­cept that they are a tri­fle longer.

42:5.97. The ul­tra­vi­o­let or chem­i­cal rays of sun­light and the var­i­ous me­chan­i­cal pro­duc­tions.

42:5.108. The white light—the whole vis­i­ble light of the suns.

42:5.119. In­frared rays—the slow­ing down of elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity still nearer the stage of ap­pre­cia­ble heat.

42:5.1210. Hertzian waves—those en­er­gies uti­lized on Uran­tia for broad­cast­ing.

42:5.13Of all these ten phases of wave­like en­ergy ac­tiv­ity, the hu­man eye can re­act to just one oc­tave, the whole light of or­di­nary sun­light.

42:5.14The so-called ether is merely a col­lec­tive name to des­ig­nate a group of force and en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties oc­cur­ring in space. Ul­ti­ma­tons, elec­trons, and other mass ag­gre­ga­tions of en­ergy are uni­form par­ti­cles of mat­ter, and in their tran­sit through space they re­ally pro­ceed in di­rect lines. Light and all other forms of rec­og­niz­able en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions con­sist of a suc­ces­sion of def­i­nite en­ergy par­ti­cles which pro­ceed in di­rect lines ex­cept as mod­i­fied by grav­ity and other in­ter­ven­ing forces. That these pro­ces­sions of en­ergy par­ti­cles ap­pear as wave phe­nom­ena when sub­jected to cer­tain ob­ser­va­tions is due to the re­sis­tance of the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated force blan­ket of all space, the hy­po­thet­i­cal ether, and to the in­ter­grav­ity ten­sion of the as­so­ci­ated ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter. The spac­ing of the par­ti­cle-in­ter­vals of mat­ter, to­gether with the ini­tial ve­loc­ity of the en­ergy beams, es­tab­lishes the un­du­la­tory ap­pear­ance of many forms of en­ergy-mat­ter.

42:5.15The ex­ci­ta­tion of the con­tent of space pro­duces a wave­like re­ac­tion to the pas­sage of rapidly mov­ing par­ti­cles of mat­ter, just as the pas­sage of a ship through wa­ter ini­ti­ates waves of vary­ing am­pli­tude and in­ter­val.

42:5.16Pri­mor­dial-force be­hav­ior does give rise to phe­nom­ena which are in many ways anal­o­gous to your pos­tu­lated ether. Space is not empty; the spheres of all space whirl and plunge on through a vast ocean of out­spread force-en­ergy; nei­ther is the space con­tent of an atom empty. Nev­er­the­less there is no ether, and the very ab­sence of this hy­po­thet­i­cal ether en­ables the in­hab­ited planet to es­cape falling into the sun and the en­cir­cling elec­tron to re­sist falling into the nu­cleus.

42:6.1While the space charge of uni­ver­sal force is ho­mo­ge­neous and un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated, the or­ga­ni­za­tion of evolved en­ergy into mat­ter en­tails the con­cen­tra­tion of en­ergy into dis­crete masses of def­i­nite di­men­sions and es­tab­lished weight—pre­cise grav­ity re­ac­tion.

42:6.2–3 · two paragraphs not cited here ·

42:6.2Lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity be­comes fully op­er­a­tive with the ap­pear­ance of the atomic or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter. Preatomic mat­ter be­comes slightly grav­ity re­spon­sive when ac­ti­vated by X ray and other sim­i­lar en­er­gies, but no mea­sur­able lin­ear-grav­ity pull is ex­erted on free, un­at­tached, and un­charged elec­tronic-en­ergy par­ti­cles or on unas­so­ci­ated ul­ti­ma­tons.

42:6.3Ul­ti­ma­tons func­tion by mu­tual at­trac­tion, re­spond­ing only to the cir­cu­lar Par­a­dise-grav­ity pull. With­out lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse they are thus held in the uni­ver­sal space drift. Ul­ti­ma­tons are ca­pa­ble of ac­cel­er­at­ing rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity to the point of par­tial anti­grav­ity be­hav­ior, but they can­not, in­de­pen­dent of force or­ga­niz­ers or power di­rec­tors, at­tain the crit­i­cal es­cape ve­loc­ity of dein­di­vid­u­a­tion, re­turn to the puis­sant-en­ergy stage. In na­ture, ul­ti­ma­tons es­cape the sta­tus of phys­i­cal ex­is­tence only when par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ter­mi­nal dis­rup­tion of a cooled-off and dy­ing sun.

42:6.4The ul­ti­ma­tons, un­known on Uran­tia, slow down through many phases of phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity be­fore they at­tain the rev­o­lu­tion­ary-en­ergy pre­req­ui­sites to elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion. Ul­ti­ma­tons have three va­ri­eties of mo­tion: mu­tual re­sis­tance to cos­mic force, in­di­vid­ual rev­o­lu­tions of anti­grav­ity po­ten­tial, and the in­tra­elec­tronic po­si­tions of the one hun­dred mu­tu­ally in­teras­so­ci­ated ul­ti­ma­tons.

42:8.1While grav­ity is one of sev­eral fac­tors con­cerned in hold­ing to­gether a tiny atomic en­ergy sys­tem, there is also pres­ent in and among these ba­sic phys­i­cal units a pow­er­ful and un­known en­ergy, the se­cret of their ba­sic con­sti­tu­tion and ul­ti­mate be­hav­ior, a force which re­mains to be dis­cov­ered on Uran­tia. This uni­ver­sal in­flu­ence per­me­ates all the space em­braced within this tiny en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion.

42:8.2The in­ter­elec­tronic space of an atom is not empty. Through­out an atom this in­ter­elec­tronic space is ac­ti­vated by wave­like man­i­fes­ta­tions which are per­fectly syn­chro­nized with elec­tronic ve­loc­ity and ul­ti­ma­tonic rev­o­lu­tions. This force is not wholly dom­i­nated by your rec­og­nized laws of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive at­trac­tion; its be­hav­ior is there­fore some­times un­pre­dictable. This un­named in­flu­ence seems to be a space-force re­ac­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

42:10.1The end­less sweep of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise monota to the ab­so­lute­ness of space po­tency, is sug­ges­tive of cer­tain evo­lu­tions of re­la­tion­ship in the non­spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the First Source and Cen­ter—those re­al­i­ties which are con­cealed in space po­tency, re­vealed in monota, and pro­vi­sion­ally dis­closed on in­ter­ven­ing cos­mic lev­els. This eter­nal cy­cle of en­ergy, be­ing cir­cuited in the Fa­ther of uni­verses, is ab­so­lute and, be­ing ab­so­lute, is ex­pan­sile in nei­ther fact nor value; nev­er­the­less the Pri­mal Fa­ther is even now—as al­ways—self-re­al­iz­ing of an ever-ex­pand­ing arena of time-space, and of time-space-tran­scended, mean­ings, an arena of chang­ing re­la­tion­ships wherein en­ergy-mat­ter is be­ing pro­gres­sively sub­jected to the over­con­trol of liv­ing and di­vine spirit through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial striv­ing of liv­ing and per­sonal mind.

56:9.12The Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers go out into space and mo­bi­lize its en­er­gies to be­come grav­ity re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise pull of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and sub­se­quently there come the Cre­ator Sons, who or­ga­nize these grav­ity-re­spond­ing forces into in­hab­ited uni­verses and therein evolve in­tel­li­gent crea­tures who re­ceive unto them­selves the spirit of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther and sub­se­quently as­cend to the Fa­ther to be­come like him in all pos­si­ble di­vin­ity at­tri­butes.

58:3.1Dur­ing the ear­lier times of uni­verse ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion the space re­gions are in­ter­spersed with vast hy­dro­gen clouds, just such as­tro­nomic dust clus­ters as now char­ac­ter­ize many re­gions through­out re­mote space. Much of the or­ga­nized mat­ter which the blaz­ing suns break down and dis­perse as ra­di­ant en­ergy was orig­i­nally built up in these early ap­pear­ing hy­dro­gen clouds of space. Un­der cer­tain un­usual con­di­tions atom dis­rup­tion also oc­curs at the nu­cleus of the larger hy­dro­gen masses. And all of these phe­nom­ena of atom build­ing and atom dis­so­lu­tion, as in the highly heated neb­u­lae, are at­tended by the emer­gence of flood tides of short space rays of ra­di­ant en­ergy. Ac­com­pa­ny­ing these di­verse ra­di­a­tions is a form of space-en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia.

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Cited alongside: energy, Master Force Organizers, matter, Paradise, segregata, space, ultimatons, Unqualified Absolute