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.

15:8.4The uni­ver­sal plan for the main­te­nance of equi­lib­rium be­tween mat­ter and en­ergy ne­ces­si­tates the ev­er­last­ing mak­ing and un­mak­ing of the lesser ma­te­rial units. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors have the abil­ity to con­dense and de­tain, or to ex­pand and lib­er­ate, vary­ing quan­ti­ties of en­ergy.

15:8.7Dur­ing the times of plus en­ergy there are power dis­tur­bances and heat fluc­tu­a­tions ac­com­pa­nied by elec­tri­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions. Dur­ing times of mi­nus en­ergy there are in­creased ten­den­cies for mat­ter to ag­gre­gate, con­dense, and to get out of con­trol in the more del­i­cately bal­anced cir­cuits, with re­sul­tant tidal or col­li­sional ad­just­ments which quickly re­store the bal­ance be­tween cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy and more lit­er­ally sta­bi­lized mat­ter. To fore­cast and oth­er­wise to un­der­stand such likely be­hav­ior of the blaz­ing suns and the dark is­lands of space is one of the tasks of the ce­les­tial star ob­servers.

15:8.8We are able to rec­og­nize most of the laws gov­ern­ing uni­verse equi­lib­rium and to pre­dict much per­tain­ing to uni­verse sta­bil­ity. Prac­ti­cally, our fore­casts are re­li­able, but we are al­ways con­fronted by cer­tain forces which are not wholly amenable to the laws of en­ergy con­trol and mat­ter be­hav­ior known to us. The pre­dictabil­ity of all phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult as we pro­ceed out­ward in the uni­verses from Par­a­dise. As we pass be­yond the bor­ders of the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Par­a­dise Rulers, we are con­fronted with in­creas­ing in­abil­ity to reckon in ac­cor­dance with the stan­dards es­tab­lished and the ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired in con­nec­tion with ob­ser­va­tions hav­ing ex­clu­sively to do with the phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena of the near-by as­tro­nomic sys­tems. Even in the realms of the seven super­uni­verses we are liv­ing in the midst of force ac­tions and en­ergy re­ac­tions which per­vade all our do­mains and ex­tend in uni­fied equi­lib­rium on through all re­gions of outer space.

15:8.9The far­ther out we go, the more cer­tainly we en­counter those vari­a­tional and un­pre­dictable phe­nom­ena which are so unerringly char­ac­ter­is­tic of the un­fath­omable pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties. And these phe­nom­ena must be in­dica­tive of some uni­ver­sal over­con­trol of all things.

29:4.20The me­chan­i­cal con­trol­lers are com­pe­tent to di­rec­tion­ize the flow of en­ergy and to fa­cil­i­tate its con­cen­tra­tion into the spe­cial­ized cur­rents or cir­cuits. These mighty be­ings have much to do with the seg­re­ga­tion, di­rec­tion­iza­tion, and in­ten­si­fi­ca­tion of the phys­i­cal en­er­gies and with the equal­iza­tion of the pres­sures of the in­ter­plan­e­tary cir­cuits. They are ex­pert in the ma­nip­u­la­tion of twenty-one of the thirty phys­i­cal en­er­gies of space, con­sti­tut­ing the power charge of a super­uni­verse. They are also able to ac­com­plish much to­wards the man­age­ment and con­trol of six of the nine more sub­tle forms of phys­i­cal en­ergy. By plac­ing these con­trol­lers in proper tech­ni­cal re­la­tion­ship to each other and to cer­tain of the power cen­ters, the as­so­ciate power di­rec­tors are en­abled to ef­fect un­be­liev­able changes in power ad­just­ment and en­ergy con­trol.

29:4.21The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers of­ten func­tion in bat­ter­ies of hun­dreds, thou­sands, and even mil­lions and by vary­ing their po­si­tions and for­ma­tions are able to ef­fect en­ergy con­trol in a col­lec­tive as well as an in­di­vid­ual ca­pac­ity. As re­quire­ments vary, they can up­step and ac­cel­er­ate the en­ergy vol­ume and move­ment or de­tain, con­dense, and re­tard the en­ergy cur­rents. They in­flu­ence en­ergy and power trans­for­ma­tions some­what as so-called cat­alytic agents aug­ment chem­i­cal re­ac­tions. They func­tion by in­her­ent abil­ity and in co-op­er­a­tion with the Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

29:4.223. En­ergy Trans­form­ers. The num­ber of these be­ings in a super­uni­verse is un­be­liev­able. There are al­most one mil­lion in Sa­ta­nia alone, and the usual quota is one hun­dred for each in­hab­ited world.

29:4.23The en­ergy trans­form­ers are the con­joint cre­ation of the Seven Su­preme Power Di­rec­tors and the Seven Cen­ter Super­vi­sors. They are among the more per­sonal or­ders of phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, and ex­cept when an as­so­ciate power di­rec­tor is pres­ent on an in­hab­ited world, the trans­form­ers are in com­mand. They are the plan­e­tary in­spec­tors of all de­part­ing se­raphic trans­ports. All classes of ce­les­tial life can uti­lize the less per­sonal or­ders of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers only by li­ai­son with the more per­sonal or­ders of the as­so­ciate di­rec­tors and the en­ergy trans­form­ers.

29:4.24These trans­form­ers are pow­er­ful and ef­fec­tive liv­ing switches, be­ing able to dis­pose them­selves for or against a given power dis­po­si­tion or di­rec­tion­iza­tion. They are also skill­ful in their ef­forts to in­su­late the plan­ets against the pow­er­ful en­ergy streams pass­ing be­tween gi­gan­tic plan­e­tary and starry neigh­bors. Their en­ergy-trans­mu­tive at­tri­butes ren­der them most ser­vice­able in the im­por­tant task of main­tain­ing uni­ver­sal en­ergy bal­ance, or power equi­lib­rium. At one time they seem to con­sume or store en­ergy; at other times they ap­pear to ex­ude or lib­er­ate en­ergy. The trans­form­ers are able to in­crease or to di­min­ish the “stor­age-bat­tery” po­ten­tial of the liv­ing and dead en­er­gies of their re­spec­tive realms. But they deal only with phys­i­cal and semi­ma­te­rial en­er­gies, they do not di­rectly func­tion in the do­main of life, nei­ther do they change the forms of liv­ing be­ings.

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.

29:4.26The re­main­ing four groups of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers are hardly per­sons within any ac­cept­able def­i­ni­tion of that word. These trans­mit­ters, as­so­ci­a­tors, dis­so­ci­a­tors, and fran­dalanks are wholly au­to­matic in their re­ac­tions; nev­er­the­less they are in ev­ery sense in­tel­li­gent. We are greatly lim­ited in our knowl­edge of these won­der­ful en­ti­ties be­cause we can­not com­mu­ni­cate with them. They ap­pear to un­der­stand the lan­guage of the realm, but they can­not com­mu­ni­cate with us. They seem fully able to re­ceive our com­mu­ni­ca­tions but quite pow­er­less to make re­sponse.

29:4.274. En­ergy Trans­mit­ters. These be­ings func­tion chiefly, but not wholly, in an in­tra­plan­e­tary ca­pac­ity. They are mar­velous dis­patch­ers of en­ergy as it is man­i­fested on the in­di­vid­ual worlds.

29:4.28When en­ergy is to be di­verted to a new cir­cuit, the trans­mit­ters de­ploy them­selves in a line along the de­sired en­ergy path, and by virtue of their unique at­tri­butes of en­ergy-at­trac­tion, they can ac­tu­ally in­duce an in­creased en­ergy flow in the de­sired di­rec­tion. This they do just as lit­er­ally as cer­tain metal­lic cir­cuits di­rec­tion­ize the flow of cer­tain forms of elec­tric en­ergy; and they are liv­ing super­con­duc­tors for more than half of the thirty forms of phys­i­cal en­ergy.

29:4.29Trans­mit­ters form skill­ful li­aisons which are ef­fec­tive in re­ha­bil­i­tat­ing the weak­en­ing cur­rents of spe­cial­ized en­ergy pass­ing from planet to planet and from sta­tion to sta­tion on an in­di­vid­ual planet. They can de­tect cur­rents which are much too fee­ble to be rec­og­nized by any other type of liv­ing be­ing, and they can so aug­ment these en­er­gies that the ac­com­pa­ny­ing mes­sage be­comes per­fectly in­tel­li­gi­ble. Their ser­vices are in­valu­able to the broad­cast re­ceivers.

29:4.30En­ergy trans­mit­ters can func­tion with re­gard to all forms of com­mu­ni­ca­ble per­cep­tion; they can ren­der a dis­tant scene “vis­i­ble” as well as a dis­tant sound “au­di­ble.” They pro­vide the emer­gency lines of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in the lo­cal sys­tems and on the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. These ser­vices must be used by prac­ti­cally all crea­tures for pur­poses of com­mu­ni­ca­tion out­side of the reg­u­larly es­tab­lished cir­cuits.

29:4.31These be­ings, to­gether with the en­ergy trans­form­ers, are in­dis­pens­able to the main­te­nance of mor­tal ex­is­tence on those worlds hav­ing an im­pov­er­ished at­mo­sphere, and they are an in­te­gral part of the tech­nique of life on the non­breath­ing plan­ets.

29:4.325. Pri­mary As­so­ci­a­tors. These in­ter­est­ing and in­valu­able en­ti­ties are mas­terly en­ergy con­ser­va­tors and cus­to­di­ans. Some­what as a plant stores so­lar light, so do these liv­ing or­gan­isms store en­ergy dur­ing times of plus man­i­fes­ta­tions. They work on a gi­gan­tic scale, con­vert­ing the en­er­gies of space into a phys­i­cal state not known on Uran­tia. They are also able to carry for­ward these trans­for­ma­tions to the point of pro­duc­ing some of the prim­i­tive units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. These be­ings sim­ply act by their pres­ence. They are in no way ex­hausted or de­pleted by this func­tion; they act like liv­ing cat­alytic agents.

29:4.33Dur­ing sea­sons of mi­nus man­i­fes­ta­tions they are em­pow­ered to re­lease these ac­cu­mu­lated en­er­gies. But your knowl­edge of en­ergy and mat­ter is not suf­fi­ciently ad­vanced to make it pos­si­ble to ex­plain the tech­nique of this phase of their work. They al­ways la­bor in com­pli­ance with uni­ver­sal law, han­dling and ma­nip­u­lat­ing atoms, elec­trons, and ul­ti­ma­tons much as you ma­neu­ver ad­justable type to make the same al­pha­bet­i­cal sym­bols tell vastly dif­fer­ent sto­ries.

29:4.34The as­so­ci­a­tors are the first group of life to ap­pear on an or­ga­niz­ing ma­te­rial sphere, and they can func­tion at phys­i­cal tem­per­a­tures which you would re­gard as ut­terly in­com­pat­i­ble with the ex­is­tence of liv­ing be­ings. They rep­re­sent an or­der of life which is sim­ply be­yond the range of hu­man imag­i­na­tion. To­gether with their co-work­ers, the dis­so­ci­a­tors, they are the most slav­ish of all in­tel­li­gent crea­tures.

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.

42:4.6Grav­ity pres­ence and ac­tion is what pre­vents the ap­pear­ance of the the­o­ret­i­cal ab­so­lute zero, for in­ter­stel­lar space does not have the tem­per­a­ture of ab­so­lute zero. Through­out all or­ga­nized space there are grav­ity-re­spond­ing en­ergy cur­rents, power cir­cuits, and ul­ti­ma­tonic ac­tiv­i­ties, as well as or­ga­niz­ing elec­tronic en­er­gies. Prac­ti­cally speak­ing, space is not empty. Even the at­mo­sphere of Uran­tia thins out in­creas­ingly un­til at about three thou­sand miles it be­gins to shade off into the av­er­age space mat­ter in this sec­tion of the uni­verse. The most nearly empty space known in Neb­a­don would yield about one hun­dred ul­ti­ma­tons—the equiv­a­lent of one elec­tron—in each cu­bic inch. Such scarcity of mat­ter is re­garded as prac­ti­cally empty space.

42:4.7Tem­per­a­ture—heat and cold—is sec­ondary only to grav­ity in the realms of en­ergy and mat­ter evo­lu­tion. Ul­ti­ma­tons are humbly obe­di­ent to tem­per­a­ture ex­tremes. Low tem­per­a­tures fa­vor cer­tain forms of elec­tronic con­struc­tion and atomic as­sem­bly, while high tem­per­a­tures fa­cil­i­tate all sorts of atomic breakup and ma­te­rial dis­in­te­gra­tion.

42:4.8When sub­jected to the heat and pres­sure of cer­tain in­ter­nal so­lar states, all but the most prim­i­tive as­so­ci­a­tions of mat­ter may be bro­ken up. Heat can thus largely over­come grav­ity sta­bil­ity. But no known so­lar heat or pres­sure can con­vert ul­ti­ma­tons back into puis­sant en­ergy.

42:4.9The blaz­ing suns can trans­form mat­ter into var­i­ous forms of en­ergy, but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down elec­tronic and ul­ti­ma­tonic ac­tiv­ity to the point of con­vert­ing these en­er­gies into the mat­ter of the realms. Cer­tain elec­tronic as­so­ci­a­tions of a close na­ture, as well as many of the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tions of nu­clear mat­ter, are formed in the ex­ceed­ingly low tem­per­a­tures of open space, be­ing later aug­mented by as­so­ci­a­tion with larger ac­cre­tions of ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing en­ergy.