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associate power directors

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

29:4.4The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers are the di­rect off­spring of the Su­preme Power Cen­ters, and their num­bers in­clude the fol­low­ing:

29:4.5–14 · ten paragraphs not cited here ·

29:4.51. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors.

29:4.62. Me­chan­i­cal Con­trol­lers.

29:4.73. En­ergy Trans­form­ers.

29:4.84. En­ergy Trans­mit­ters.

29:4.95. Pri­mary As­so­ci­a­tors.

29:4.106. Sec­ondary Dis­so­ci­a­tors.

29:4.117. The Fran­dalanks and Chro­nol­deks.

29:4.12Not all of these or­ders are per­sons in the sense of pos­sess­ing in­di­vid­ual pow­ers of choice. Es­pe­cially do the last four seem to be wholly au­to­matic and me­chan­i­cal in re­sponse to the im­pulses of their su­pe­ri­ors and in re­ac­tion to ex­ist­ing en­ergy con­di­tions. But though such re­sponse ap­pears wholly mech­a­nis­tic, it is not; they may seem to be au­toma­tons, but all of them dis­close the dif­fer­en­tial func­tion of in­tel­li­gence.

29:4.13Per­son­al­ity is not nec­es­sar­ily a con­comi­tant of mind. Mind can think even when de­prived of all power of choice, as in nu­mer­ous of the lower types of an­i­mals and in cer­tain of these sub­or­di­nate phys­i­cal con­trol­lers. Many of these more au­to­matic reg­u­la­tors of phys­i­cal power are not per­sons in any sense of the term. They are not en­dowed with will and in­de­pen­dence of de­ci­sion, be­ing wholly sub­servient to the me­chan­i­cal per­fec­tion of de­sign for the tasks of their al­lot­ment. Nonethe­less all of them are highly in­tel­li­gent be­ings.

29:4.14The phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are chiefly oc­cu­pied in the ad­just­ment of ba­sic en­er­gies undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia. These un­known en­er­gies are very es­sen­tial to the in­ter­plan­e­tary sys­tem of trans­port and to cer­tain tech­niques of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. When we lay lines of en­ergy for the pur­pose of con­vey­ing sound equiv­a­lents or of ex­tend­ing vi­sion, these undis­cov­ered forms of en­ergy are uti­lized by the liv­ing phys­i­cal con­trol­lers and their as­so­ciates. These same en­er­gies are also, on oc­ca­sion, used by the mid­way crea­tures in their rou­tine work.

29:4.151. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors. These mar­velously ef­fi­cient be­ings are in­trusted with the as­sign­ment and dis­patch of all or­ders of the Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers in ac­cor­dance with the ever-shift­ing needs of the con­stantly chang­ing en­ergy sta­tus of the realms. The vast re­serves of the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are main­tained on the head­quar­ters worlds of the mi­nor sec­tors, and from these con­cen­tra­tion points they are pe­ri­od­i­cally dis­patched by the as­so­ciate power di­rec­tors to the head­quar­ters of the uni­verses, con­stel­la­tions, and sys­tems, and to the in­di­vid­ual plan­ets. When thus as­signed, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers are pro­vi­sion­ally sub­ject to the or­ders of the di­vine ex­e­cu­tion­ers of the con­cil­i­at­ing com­mis­sions but are oth­er­wise solely amenable to their as­so­ciate di­rec­tors and to the Su­preme Power Cen­ters.

29:4.16Three mil­lion as­so­ciate power di­rec­tors are as­signed to each of the Or­von­ton mi­nor sec­tors, mak­ing a to­tal of three bil­lion as the super­uni­verse quota of these amaz­ingly ver­sa­tile be­ings. Their own re­serves are main­tained on these same mi­nor sec­tor worlds, where they also serve as in­struc­tors of all who study the sci­ences of the tech­niques of in­tel­li­gent en­ergy con­trol and trans­mu­ta­tion.

29:4.17These di­rec­tors al­ter­nate pe­ri­ods of ex­ec­u­tive ser­vice in the mi­nor sec­tors with equal pe­ri­ods of in­spec­tion ser­vice to the realms of space. At least one act­ing in­spec­tor is al­ways pres­ent in each lo­cal sys­tem, main­tain­ing head­quar­ters on its cap­i­tal sphere. They keep the whole vast liv­ing en­ergy ag­gre­ga­tion in har­mo­nious syn­chrony.

30:2.1011. As­so­ciate Power Di­rec­tors.

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See also Master Physical Controllers

Cited alongside: Master Physical Controllers, minor sectors