force

• definition › all-inclusive term applied to spirit, mind, and matter

0:6.2EN­ERGY we use as an all-in­clu­sive term ap­plied to spir­i­tual, mindal, and ma­te­rial realms. Force is also thus broadly used. Power is or­di­nar­ily lim­ited to the des­ig­na­tion of the elec­tronic level of ma­te­rial or lin­ear-grav­ity-re­spon­sive mat­ter in the grand uni­verse. Power is also em­ployed to des­ig­nate sov­er­eignty. We can­not fol­low your gen­er­ally ac­cepted def­i­ni­tions of force, en­ergy, and power. There is such paucity of lan­guage that we must as­sign mul­ti­ple mean­ings to these terms.

• all forms are encircuited

11:5.8All forms of force and all phases of en­ergy seem to be en­cir­cuited; they cir­cu­late through­out the uni­verses and re­turn by def­i­nite routes. But with the em­a­na­tions of the ac­ti­vated zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute there ap­pears to be ei­ther an out­go­ing or an in­com­ing—never both si­mul­ta­ne­ously. This outer zone pul­sates in age­long cy­cles of gi­gan­tic pro­por­tions. For a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years the space-force of this cen­ter is out­go­ing; then for a sim­i­lar length of time it will be in­com­ing. And the space-force man­i­fes­ta­tions of this cen­ter are uni­ver­sal; they ex­tend through­out all per­vad­able space.

• one with energy and matter

11:5.9All phys­i­cal force, en­ergy, and mat­ter are one. All force-en­ergy orig­i­nally pro­ceeded from nether Par­a­dise and will even­tu­ally re­turn thereto fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of its space cir­cuit. But the en­er­gies and ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tions of the uni­verse of uni­verses did not all come from nether Par­a­dise in their pres­ent phe­nom­e­nal states; space is the womb of sev­eral forms of mat­ter and pre­mat­ter. Though the outer zone of the Par­a­dise force cen­ter is the source of space-en­er­gies, space does not orig­i­nate there. Space is not force, en­ergy, or power. Nor do the pul­sa­tions of this zone ac­count for the res­pi­ra­tion of space, but the in­com­ing and out­go­ing phases of this zone are syn­chro­nized with the two-bil­lion-year ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cles of space.

• definition › term denotes pregravity stages of energy

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.

• journeys on subject to ever-present pull of Paradise

12:8.3What­ever the trans­for­ma­tions of force in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, hav­ing gone out from Par­a­dise, it jour­neys on sub­ject to the never-end­ing, ever-pres­ent, un­fail­ing pull of the eter­nal Isle, obe­di­ently and in­her­ently swing­ing on for­ever around the eter­nal space paths of the uni­verses. Phys­i­cal en­ergy is the one re­al­ity which is true and stead­fast in its obe­di­ence to uni­ver­sal law. Only in the realms of crea­ture vo­li­tion has there been de­vi­a­tion from the di­vine paths and the orig­i­nal plans. Power and en­ergy are the uni­ver­sal ev­i­dences of the sta­bil­ity, con­stancy, and eter­nity of the cen­tral Isle of Par­a­dise.

• all force is circuited in Paradise

42:1.6En­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, fash­ioned af­ter the di­vine or­der. En­ergy—pure en­ergy—par­takes of the na­ture of the di­vine or­ga­ni­za­tion; it is fash­ioned af­ter the simil­i­tude of the three Gods em­braced in one, as they func­tion at the head­quar­ters of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And all force is cir­cuited in Par­a­dise, comes from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences and re­turns thereto, and is in essence a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the un­caused Cause—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and with­out the Fa­ther would not any­thing ex­ist that does ex­ist.

• definition › term denotes pregravity stages of energy

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.

• one with energy and matter

42:4.1Light, heat, elec­tric­ity, mag­netism, chem­ism, en­ergy, and mat­ter are—in ori­gin, na­ture, and des­tiny—one and the same thing, to­gether with other ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties as yet undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia.

42:4.2We do not fully com­pre­hend the al­most end­less changes to which phys­i­cal en­ergy may be sub­ject. In one uni­verse it ap­pears as light, in an­other as light plus heat, in an­other as forms of en­ergy un­known on Uran­tia; in un­told mil­lions of years it may reap­pear as some form of rest­less, surg­ing elec­tri­cal en­ergy or mag­netic power; and still later on it may again ap­pear in a sub­se­quent uni­verse as some form of vari­able mat­ter go­ing through a se­ries of meta­mor­phoses, to be fol­lowed by its out­ward phys­i­cal dis­ap­pear­ance in some great cat­a­clysm of the realms. And then, af­ter count­less ages and al­most end­less wan­der­ing through num­ber­less uni­verses, again may this same en­ergy re-emerge and many times change its form and po­ten­tial; and so do these trans­for­ma­tions con­tinue through suc­ces­sive ages and through­out count­less realms. Thus mat­ter sweeps on, un­der­go­ing the trans­mu­ta­tions of time but swing­ing ever true to the cir­cle of eter­nity; even if long pre­vented from re­turn­ing to its source, it is ever re­spon­sive thereto, and it ever pro­ceeds in the path or­dained by the In­fi­nite Per­son­al­ity who sent it forth.

• use spiritual f. to break through material resistance

166:3.8Even the apos­tles were un­able fully to com­pre­hend his teach­ing as to the ne­ces­sity for us­ing spir­i­tual force for the pur­pose of break­ing through all ma­te­rial re­sis­tance and for sur­mount­ing ev­ery earthly ob­sta­cle which might chance to stand in the way of grasp­ing the all-im­por­tant spir­i­tual val­ues of the new life in the spirit as the lib­er­ated sons of God.