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dark gravity bodies

13 paragraphs · about 3 minutes · 9 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.

complement Paradise gravity 1 paragraph

11:8.2The cen­ter and fo­cal point of ab­so­lute ma­te­rial grav­ity is the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­ple­mented by the dark grav­ity bod­ies en­cir­cling Ha­vona and equi­li­brated by the up­per and nether space reser­voirs. All known em­a­na­tions of nether Par­a­dise in­vari­ably and unerringly re­spond to the cen­tral grav­ity pull op­er­at­ing upon the end­less cir­cuits of the el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse. Ev­ery known form of cos­mic re­al­ity has the bend of the ages, the trend of the cir­cle, the swing of the great el­lipse.

disclose linear and absolute physical gravity drawing power 1 paragraph

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.

encircle Havona; equalize gravity 6 paragraphs

12:1.10Ha­vona, the cen­tral uni­verse, is not a time cre­ation; it is an eter­nal ex­is­tence. This never-be­gin­ning, never-end­ing uni­verse con­sists of one bil­lion spheres of sub­lime per­fec­tion and is sur­rounded by the enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. At the cen­ter of Ha­vona is the sta­tion­ary and ab­so­lutely sta­bi­lized Isle of Par­a­dise, sur­rounded by its twenty-one satel­lites. Ow­ing to the enor­mous en­cir­cling masses of the dark grav­ity bod­ies about the fringe of the cen­tral uni­verse, the mass con­tent of this cen­tral cre­ation is far in ex­cess of the to­tal known mass of all seven sec­tors of the grand uni­verse.

14:1.14On the out­skirts of this vast cen­tral uni­verse, far out be­yond the sev­enth belt of Ha­vona worlds, there swirl an un­be­liev­able num­ber of enor­mous dark grav­ity bod­ies. These mul­ti­tudi­nous dark masses are quite un­like other space bod­ies in many par­tic­u­lars; even in form they are very dif­fer­ent. These dark grav­ity bod­ies nei­ther re­flect nor ab­sorb light; they are non­re­ac­tive to phys­i­cal-en­ergy light, and they so com­pletely en­cir­cle and en­shroud Ha­vona as to hide it from the view of even near-by in­hab­ited uni­verses of time and space.

14:1.15The great belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies is di­vided into two equal el­lip­ti­cal cir­cuits by a unique space in­tru­sion. The in­ner belt re­volves coun­ter­clock­wise; the outer re­volves clock­wise. These al­ter­nate di­rec­tions of mo­tion, cou­pled with the ex­traor­di­nary mass of the dark bod­ies, so ef­fec­tively equal­ize the lines of Ha­vona grav­ity as to ren­der the cen­tral uni­verse a phys­i­cally bal­anced and per­fectly sta­bi­lized cre­ation.

14:1.16The in­ner pro­ces­sion of dark grav­ity bod­ies is tubu­lar in ar­range­ment, con­sist­ing of three cir­cu­lar group­ings. A cross sec­tion of this cir­cuit would ex­hibit three con­cen­tric cir­cles of about equal den­sity. The outer cir­cuit of dark grav­ity bod­ies is ar­ranged per­pen­dic­u­larly, be­ing ten thou­sand times higher than the in­ner cir­cuit. The up-and-down di­am­e­ter of the outer cir­cuit is fifty thou­sand times that of the trans­verse di­am­e­ter.

14:1.17The in­ter­ven­ing space which ex­ists be­tween these two cir­cuits of grav­ity bod­ies is unique in that noth­ing like it is to be found else­where in all the wide uni­verse. This zone is char­ac­ter­ized by enor­mous wave move­ments of an up-and-down na­ture and is per­me­ated by tremen­dous en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of an un­known or­der.

14:1.18In our opin­ion, noth­ing like the dark grav­ity bod­ies of the cen­tral uni­verse will char­ac­ter­ize the fu­ture evo­lu­tion of the outer space lev­els; we re­gard these al­ter­nate pro­ces­sions of stu­pen­dous grav­ity-bal­anc­ing bod­ies as unique in the mas­ter uni­verse.

neither reflect nor absorb light 0 paragraphs, 1 read above

14:1.14 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

neither triata nor gravita; unique 0 paragraphs, 3 read above

11:8.7 read above, under disclose linear and absolute physical gravity drawing power

14:1.17 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

14:1.18 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

position in space 3 paragraphs

14:1.54. The in­ner, coun­ter­clock­wise-mov­ing belt of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.65. The sec­ond unique space zone di­vid­ing the two space paths of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.76. The outer belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies, re­volv­ing clock­wise around Par­a­dise.

primary seconaphim take pilgrims past d.g.b. to Havona 1 paragraph

26:4.11The pil­grims of time are trans­ported past the dark grav­ity bod­ies of Ha­vona to the outer plan­e­tary cir­cuit by the trans­port per­son­al­i­ties of the pri­mary or­der of se­con­a­phim, op­er­at­ing from the head­quar­ters of the seven super­uni­verses. A ma­jor­ity, but not all, of the ser­a­phim of plan­e­tary and lo­cal uni­verse ser­vice who have been ac­cred­ited for the Par­a­dise as­cent will part with their mor­tal as­so­ciates be­fore the long flight to Ha­vona and will at once be­gin a long and in­tense train­ing for su­per­nal as­sign­ment, ex­pect­ing to achieve, as ser­a­phim, per­fec­tion of ex­is­tence and su­prem­acy of ser­vice. And this they do, hop­ing to re­join the pil­grims of time, to be reck­oned among those who for­ever fol­low the course of such mor­tals as have at­tained the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and have re­ceived as­sign­ment to the undis­closed ser­vice of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity.

shape and procession of inner and outer circuits 1 paragraph, 3 read above

14:1.1From the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise to the in­ner bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses there are the fol­low­ing seven space con­di­tions and mo­tions:

14:1.2–14 · 13 paragraphs not cited here ·

14:1.21. The qui­es­cent midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise.

14:1.32. The clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the three Par­a­dise and the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits.

14:1.43. The semiquiet space zone sep­a­rat­ing the Ha­vona cir­cuits from the dark grav­ity bod­ies of the cen­tral uni­verse.

14:1.5 read above, under position in space

14:1.6 read above, under position in space

14:1.7 read above, under position in space

14:1.87. A third space zone—a semiquiet zone—sep­a­rat­ing the outer belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies from the in­ner­most cir­cuits of the seven super­uni­verses.

14:1.9The bil­lion worlds of Ha­vona are ar­ranged in seven con­cen­tric cir­cuits im­me­di­ately sur­round­ing the three cir­cuits of Par­a­dise satel­lites. There are up­wards of thirty-five mil­lion worlds in the in­ner­most Ha­vona cir­cuit and over two hun­dred and forty-five mil­lion in the out­er­most, with pro­por­tion­ate num­bers in­ter­ven­ing. Each cir­cuit dif­fers, but all are per­fectly bal­anced and ex­qui­sitely or­ga­nized, and each is per­vaded by a spe­cial­ized rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit, one of the Seven Spir­its of the Cir­cuits. In ad­di­tion to other func­tions this im­per­sonal Spirit co-or­di­nates the con­duct of ce­les­tial af­fairs through­out each cir­cuit.

14:1.10The Ha­vona plan­e­tary cir­cuits are not super­im­posed; their worlds fol­low each other in an or­derly lin­ear pro­ces­sion. The cen­tral uni­verse whirls around the sta­tion­ary Isle of Par­a­dise in one vast plane, con­sist­ing of ten con­cen­tric sta­bi­lized units—the three cir­cuits of Par­a­dise spheres and the seven cir­cuits of Ha­vona worlds. Phys­i­cally re­garded, the Ha­vona and the Par­a­dise cir­cuits are all one and the same sys­tem; their sep­a­ra­tion is in rec­og­ni­tion of func­tional and ad­min­is­tra­tive seg­re­ga­tion.

14:1.11Time is not reck­oned on Par­a­dise; the se­quence of suc­ces­sive events is in­her­ent in the con­cept of those who are in­dige­nous to the cen­tral Isle. But time is ger­mane to the Ha­vona cir­cuits and to nu­mer­ous be­ings of both ce­les­tial and ter­res­trial ori­gin so­journ­ing thereon. Each Ha­vona world has its own lo­cal time, de­ter­mined by its cir­cuit. All worlds in a given cir­cuit have the same length of year since they uni­formly swing around Par­a­dise, and the length of these plan­e­tary years de­creases from the out­er­most to the in­ner­most cir­cuit.

14:1.12Be­sides Ha­vona-cir­cuit time, there is the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day and other time des­ig­na­tions which are de­ter­mined on, and are sent out from, the seven Par­a­dise satel­lites of the In­fi­nite Spirit. The Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day is based on the length of time re­quired for the plan­e­tary abodes of the first or in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit to com­plete one rev­o­lu­tion around the Isle of Par­a­dise; and though their ve­loc­ity is enor­mous, ow­ing to their sit­u­a­tion be­tween the dark grav­ity bod­ies and gi­gan­tic Par­a­dise, it re­quires al­most one thou­sand years for these spheres to com­plete their cir­cuit. You have un­wit­tingly read the truth when your eyes rested on the state­ment “A day is as a thou­sand years with God, as but a watch in the night.” One Par­a­dise-Ha­vona day is just seven min­utes, three and one-eighth sec­onds less than one thou­sand years of the pres­ent Uran­tia leap-year cal­en­dar.

14:1.13This Par­a­dise-Ha­vona day is the stan­dard time mea­sure­ment for the seven super­uni­verses, al­though each main­tains its own in­ter­nal time stan­dards.

14:1.14 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

14:1.15 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

14:1.16 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

14:1.17 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

with Havona, mass far exceeds 7 superuniverses 0 paragraphs, 1 read above

12:1.10 read above, under encircle Havona; equalize gravity

Onward

Cited alongside: space, gravity, Havona, superuniverses, the seven