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cosmic force

5 paragraphs · about 1 minute · 2 chapters

The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

all energies from Unqualified Absolute not yet responsive to Paradise gravity 4 paragraphs

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

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.

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:

responds to mind 1 paragraph

9:4.5Cos­mic force re­sponds to mind even as cos­mic mind re­sponds to spirit. Spirit is di­vine pur­pose, and spirit mind is di­vine pur­pose in ac­tion. En­ergy is thing, mind is mean­ing, spirit is value. Even in time and space, mind es­tab­lishes those rel­a­tive re­la­tion­ships be­tween en­ergy and spirit which are sug­ges­tive of mu­tual kin­ship in eter­nity.

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See also absoluta; force; segregata

Cited alongside: absoluta, energy, force