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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.

every form of reality has swing of 2 paragraphs

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.

12:1.1The uni­verse of uni­verses is not an in­fi­nite plane, a bound­less cube, nor a lim­it­less cir­cle; it cer­tainly has di­men­sions. The laws of phys­i­cal or­ga­ni­za­tion and ad­min­is­tra­tion prove con­clu­sively that the whole vast ag­gre­ga­tion of force-en­ergy and mat­ter-power func­tions ul­ti­mately as a space unit, as an or­ga­nized and co-or­di­nated whole. The ob­serv­able be­hav­ior of the ma­te­rial cre­ation con­sti­tutes ev­i­dence of a phys­i­cal uni­verse of def­i­nite lim­its. The fi­nal proof of both a cir­cu­lar and de­lim­ited uni­verse is af­forded by the, to us, well-known fact that all forms of ba­sic en­ergy ever swing around the curved path of the space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse in obe­di­ence to the in­ces­sant and ab­so­lute pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity.

Paradise is ellipsoidal 1 paragraph

11:2.2In form Par­a­dise dif­fers from the in­hab­ited space bod­ies: it is not spher­i­cal. It is def­i­nitely el­lip­soid, be­ing one-sixth longer in the north-south di­am­e­ter than in the east-west di­am­e­ter. The cen­tral Isle is es­sen­tially flat, and the dis­tance from the up­per sur­face to the nether sur­face is one tenth that of the east-west di­am­e­ter.

superuniverses traverse 2 paragraphs

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

41:9.2Atoms and elec­trons are sub­ject to grav­ity. The ul­ti­ma­tons are not sub­ject to lo­cal grav­ity, the in­ter­play of ma­te­rial at­trac­tion, but they are fully obe­di­ent to ab­so­lute or Par­a­dise grav­ity, to the trend, the swing, of the uni­ver­sal and eter­nal cir­cle of the uni­verse of uni­verses. Ul­ti­ma­tonic en­ergy does not obey the lin­ear or di­rect grav­ity at­trac­tion of near-by or re­mote ma­te­rial masses, but it does ever swing true to the cir­cuit of the great el­lipse of the far-flung cre­ation.

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Cited alongside: gravity, Paradise