gravity

• types of gravity › material gravity › converges in nether Paradise

0:3.131. The grav­ity forces of the ma­te­rial uni­verses are con­ver­gent in the grav­ity cen­ter of nether Par­a­dise. That is just why the ge­o­graphic lo­ca­tion of his per­son is eter­nally fixed in ab­so­lute re­la­tion to the force-en­ergy cen­ter of the nether or ma­te­rial plane of Par­a­dise. But the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of De­ity ex­ists on the up­per or spir­i­tual plane of Par­a­dise.

• characteristics › life and pattern not responsive to

0:6.10PAT­TERN can be pro­jected as ma­te­rial, spir­i­tual, or mindal, or any com­bi­na­tion of these en­er­gies. It can per­vade per­son­al­i­ties, iden­ti­ties, en­ti­ties, or non­liv­ing mat­ter. But pat­tern is pat­tern and re­mains pat­tern; only copies are mul­ti­plied.

• types of gravity › material gravity › sole control of energy-matter

0:6.11Pat­tern may con­fig­ure en­ergy, but it does not con­trol it. Grav­ity is the sole con­trol of en­ergy-mat­ter. Nei­ther space nor pat­tern are grav­ity re­spon­sive, but there is no re­la­tion­ship be­tween space and pat­tern; space is nei­ther pat­tern nor po­ten­tial pat­tern. Pat­tern is a con­fig­u­ra­tion of re­al­ity which has al­ready paid all grav­ity debt; the re­al­ity of any pat­tern con­sists of its en­er­gies, its mind, spirit, or ma­te­rial com­po­nents.

0:6.12In con­trast to the as­pect of the to­tal, pat­tern dis­closes the in­di­vid­ual as­pect of en­ergy and of per­son­al­ity. Per­son­al­ity or iden­tity forms are pat­terns re­sul­tant from en­ergy (phys­i­cal, spir­i­tual, or mindal) but are not in­her­ent therein. That qual­ity of en­ergy or of per­son­al­ity by virtue of which pat­tern is caused to ap­pear may be at­tributed to God—De­ity—to Par­a­dise force en­dow­ment, to the co­ex­is­tence of per­son­al­ity and power.

0:6.13Pat­tern is a mas­ter de­sign from which copies are made. Eter­nal Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns; the Eter­nal Son is the pat­tern per­son­al­ity; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is the di­rect an­ces­tor-source of both. But Par­a­dise does not be­stow pat­tern, and the Son can­not be­stow per­son­al­ity.

• types of gravity › mind gravity
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity
• types of gravity › spirit gravity

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

• characteristics › creation inherently coheres and consists in God

3:1.7The Uni­ver­sal Con­trol­ler is po­ten­tially pres­ent in the grav­ity cir­cuits of the Isle of Par­a­dise in all parts of the uni­verse at all times and in the same de­gree, in ac­cor­dance with the mass, in re­sponse to the phys­i­cal de­mands for this pres­ence, and be­cause of the in­her­ent na­ture of all cre­ation which causes all things to ad­here and con­sist in him. Like­wise is the First Source and Cen­ter po­ten­tially pres­ent in the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the re­pos­i­tory of the un­cre­ated uni­verses of the eter­nal fu­ture. God thus po­ten­tially per­vades the phys­i­cal uni­verses of the past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. He is the pri­mor­dial foun­da­tion of the co­her­ence of the so-called ma­te­rial cre­ation. This non­spir­i­tual De­ity po­ten­tial be­comes ac­tual here and there through­out the level of phys­i­cal ex­is­tences by the in­ex­pli­ca­ble in­tru­sion of some one of his ex­clu­sive agen­cies upon the stage of uni­verse ac­tion.

• types of gravity › material gravity › converges in nether Paradise

3:2.4God con­trols all power; he has made “a way for the light­ning”; he has or­dained the cir­cuits of all en­ergy. He has de­creed the time and man­ner of the man­i­fes­ta­tion of all forms of en­ergy-mat­ter. And all these things are held for­ever in his ev­er­last­ing grasp—in the grav­i­ta­tional con­trol cen­ter­ing on nether Par­a­dise. The light and en­ergy of the eter­nal God thus swing on for­ever around his ma­jes­tic cir­cuit, the end­less but or­derly pro­ces­sion of the starry hosts com­pos­ing the uni­verse of uni­verses. All cre­ation cir­cles eter­nally around the Par­a­dise-Per­son­al­ity cen­ter of all things and be­ings.

• types of gravity › material gravity › creation of each universe requires adjustment of

3:4.2The cre­ation of ev­ery new uni­verse calls for a new ad­just­ment of grav­ity; but even if cre­ation should con­tinue in­def­i­nitely, eter­nally, even to in­fin­ity, so that even­tu­ally the ma­te­rial cre­ation would ex­ist with­out lim­i­ta­tions, still the power of con­trol and co-or­di­na­tion repos­ing in the Isle of Par­a­dise would be found equal to, and ad­e­quate for, the mas­tery, con­trol, and co-or­di­na­tion of such an in­fi­nite uni­verse. And sub­se­quent to this be­stowal of lim­it­less force and power upon a bound­less uni­verse, the In­fi­nite would still be sur­charged with the same de­gree of force and en­ergy; the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute would still be undi­min­ished; God would still pos­sess the same in­fi­nite po­ten­tial, just as if force, en­ergy, and power had never been poured forth for the en­dow­ment of uni­verse upon uni­verse.

• types of gravity › material gravity › converges in nether Paradise
• types of gravity › mind gravity › centers in Infinite Spirit
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

5:6.11As all grav­ity is cir­cuited in the Isle of Par­a­dise, as all mind is cir­cuited in the Con­joint Ac­tor and all spirit in the Eter­nal Son, so is all per­son­al­ity cir­cuited in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, and this cir­cuit unerringly trans­mits the wor­ship of all per­son­al­i­ties to the Orig­i­nal and Eter­nal Per­son­al­ity.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

6:3.2The Eter­nal Son is the great mercy min­is­ter to all cre­ation. Mercy is the essence of the Son’s spir­i­tual char­ac­ter. The man­dates of the Eter­nal Son, as they go forth over the spirit cir­cuits of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter, are keyed in tones of mercy.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › adequate for an unlimited universe
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

6:4.1The Eter­nal Son mo­ti­vates the spirit level of cos­mic re­al­ity; the spir­i­tual power of the Son is ab­so­lute in re­la­tion to all uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties. He ex­er­cises per­fect con­trol over the in­teras­so­ci­a­tion of all un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated spirit en­ergy and over all ac­tu­al­ized spirit re­al­ity through his ab­so­lute grasp of spirit grav­ity. All pure un­frag­mented spirit and all spir­i­tual be­ings and val­ues are re­spon­sive to the in­fi­nite draw­ing power of the pri­mal Son of Par­a­dise. And if the eter­nal fu­ture should wit­ness the ap­pear­ance of an un­lim­ited uni­verse, the spirit grav­ity and the spirit power of the Orig­i­nal Son will be found wholly ad­e­quate for the spir­i­tual con­trol and ef­fec­tive ad­min­is­tra­tion of such a bound­less cre­ation.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

6:5.2The Eter­nal Son does not per­son­ally per­vade the po­ten­tials of spirit in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the De­ity Ab­so­lute, but as these po­ten­tials be­come ac­tual, they come within the all-pow­er­ful grasp of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Son.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

7:1.1Ev­ery­thing taught con­cern­ing the im­ma­nence of God, his om­nipres­ence, om­nipo­tence, and om­ni­science, is equally true of the Son in the spir­i­tual do­mains. The pure and uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity of all cre­ation, this ex­clu­sively spir­i­tual cir­cuit, leads di­rectly back to the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter on Par­a­dise. He pre­sides over the con­trol and op­er­a­tion of that ever-pres­ent and unerring spir­i­tual grasp of all true spirit val­ues. Thus does the Eter­nal Son ex­er­cise ab­so­lute spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty. He lit­er­ally holds all spirit re­al­i­ties and all spir­i­tu­al­ized val­ues, as it were, in the hol­low of his hand. The con­trol of uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual grav­ity is uni­ver­sal spir­i­tual sov­er­eignty.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › independent of time and space; undiminished in transmission

7:1.2This grav­ity con­trol of spir­i­tual things op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of time and space; there­fore is spirit en­ergy undi­min­ished in trans­mis­sion. Spirit grav­ity never suf­fers time de­lays, nor does it un­dergo space diminu­tion. It does not de­crease in ac­cor­dance with the square of the dis­tance of its trans­mis­sion; the cir­cuits of pure spirit power are not re­tarded by the mass of the ma­te­rial cre­ation. And this tran­scen­dence of time and space by pure spirit en­er­gies is in­her­ent in the ab­so­lute­ness of the Son; it is not due to the in­ter­po­si­tion of the anti­grav­ity forces of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › as real and absolute as material g.
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › attracts in accordance with degree of spirit nature, its quality and degree of actuality

7:1.3Spirit re­al­i­ties re­spond to the draw­ing power of the cen­ter of spir­i­tual grav­ity in ac­cor­dance with their qual­i­ta­tive value, their ac­tual de­gree of spirit na­ture. Spirit sub­stance (qual­ity) is just as re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity as the or­ga­nized en­ergy of phys­i­cal mat­ter (quan­tity) is re­spon­sive to phys­i­cal grav­ity. Spir­i­tual val­ues and spirit forces are real. From the view­point of per­son­al­ity, spirit is the soul of cre­ation; mat­ter is the shad­owy phys­i­cal body.

7:1.4The re­ac­tions and fluc­tu­a­tions of spirit grav­ity are ever true to the con­tent of spir­i­tual val­ues, the qual­i­ta­tive spir­i­tual sta­tus of an in­di­vid­ual or a world. This draw­ing power is in­stantly re­spon­sive to the in­ter- and in­traspirit val­ues of any uni­verse sit­u­a­tion or plan­e­tary con­di­tion. Ev­ery time a spir­i­tual re­al­ity ac­tu­al­izes in the uni­verses, this change ne­ces­si­tates the im­me­di­ate and in­stan­ta­neous read­just­ment of spirit grav­ity. Such a new spirit is ac­tu­ally a part of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter; and just as cer­tainly as mor­tal man be­comes a spir­i­tized be­ing, he will at­tain the spir­i­tual Son, the cen­ter and source of spirit grav­ity.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › exists to lesser degree in many Paradise orders of sonship

7:1.5The Son’s spir­i­tual draw­ing power is in­her­ent to a lesser de­gree in many Par­a­dise or­ders of son­ship. For there do ex­ist within the ab­so­lute spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit those lo­cal sys­tems of spir­i­tual at­trac­tion that func­tion in the lesser units of cre­ation. Such sub­ab­so­lute fo­cal­iza­tions of spirit grav­ity are a part of the di­vin­ity of the Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties of time and space and are cor­re­lated with the emerg­ing ex­pe­ri­en­tial over­con­trol of the Su­preme Be­ing.

7:1.6Spirit-grav­ity pull and re­sponse thereto op­er­ate not only on the uni­verse as a whole but also even be­tween in­di­vid­u­als and groups of in­di­vid­u­als. There is a spir­i­tual co­he­sive­ness among the spir­i­tual and spir­i­tized per­son­al­i­ties of any world, race, na­tion, or be­liev­ing group of in­di­vid­u­als. There is a di­rect at­trac­tive­ness of a spirit na­ture be­tween spir­i­tu­ally minded per­sons of like tastes and long­ings. The term kin­dred spir­its is not wholly a fig­ure of speech.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › sin and rebellion do not interfere with

7:1.7Like the ma­te­rial grav­ity of Par­a­dise, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son is ab­so­lute. Sin and re­bel­lion may in­ter­fere with the op­er­a­tion of lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits, but noth­ing can sus­pend the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The Lu­cifer re­bel­lion pro­duced many changes in your sys­tem of in­hab­ited worlds and on Uran­tia, but we do not ob­serve that the re­sul­tant spir­i­tual quar­an­tine of your planet in the least af­fected the pres­ence and func­tion of ei­ther the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son or the as­so­ci­ated spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › attracts in accordance with degree of spirit nature, its quality and degree of actuality
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › reactions are dependable and measurable

7:1.8All re­ac­tions of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the grand uni­verse are pre­dictable. We rec­og­nize all ac­tions and re­ac­tions of the om­ni­pres­ent spirit of the Eter­nal Son and find them to be de­pend­able. In ac­cor­dance with well-known laws, we can and do mea­sure spir­i­tual grav­ity just as man at­tempts to com­pute the work­ings of fi­nite phys­i­cal grav­ity. There is an un­vary­ing re­sponse of the Son’s spirit to all spirit things, be­ings, and per­sons, and this re­sponse is al­ways in ac­cor­dance with the de­gree of ac­tu­al­ity (the qual­i­ta­tive de­gree of re­al­ity) of all such spir­i­tual val­ues.

7:1.9But along­side this very de­pend­able and pre­dictable func­tion of the spir­i­tual pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son, there are en­coun­tered phe­nom­ena which are not so pre­dictable in their re­ac­tions. Such phe­nom­ena prob­a­bly in­di­cate the co-or­di­nate ac­tion of the De­ity Ab­so­lute in the realms of emerg­ing spir­i­tual po­ten­tials. We know that the spirit pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son is the in­flu­ence of a ma­jes­tic and in­fi­nite per­son­al­ity, but we hardly re­gard the re­ac­tions as­so­ci­ated with the con­jec­tured per­for­mances of the De­ity Ab­so­lute as per­sonal.

7:1.10Viewed from the per­son­al­ity stand­point and by per­sons, the Eter­nal Son and the De­ity Ab­so­lute ap­pear to be re­lated in the fol­low­ing way: The Eter­nal Son dom­i­nates the realm of ac­tual spir­i­tual val­ues, whereas the De­ity Ab­so­lute seems to per­vade the vast do­main of po­ten­tial spirit val­ues. All ac­tual value of spirit na­ture finds lodg­ment in the grav­ity grasp of the Eter­nal Son but, if po­ten­tial, then ap­par­ently in the pres­ence of the De­ity Ab­so­lute.

7:1.11Spirit seems to emerge from the po­ten­tials of the De­ity Ab­so­lute; evolv­ing spirit finds cor­re­la­tion in the ex­pe­ri­en­tial and in­com­plete grasps of the Su­preme and the Ul­ti­mate; spirit even­tu­ally finds fi­nal des­tiny in the ab­so­lute grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. This ap­pears to be the cy­cle of ex­pe­ri­en­tial spirit, but ex­is­ten­tial spirit is in­her­ent in the in­fin­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter.

• types of gravity › material gravity › ascenders’ minds become less subject to
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › holds all spiritualized individuals
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › literally pulls mortal souls Paradiseward

7:3.2The spir­i­tual-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son con­sti­tutes the in­her­ent se­cret of the Par­a­dise as­cen­sion of sur­viv­ing hu­man souls. All gen­uine spirit val­ues and all bona fide spir­i­tu­al­ized in­di­vid­u­als are held within the un­fail­ing grasp of the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son. The mor­tal mind, for ex­am­ple, ini­ti­ates its ca­reer as a ma­te­rial mech­a­nism and is even­tu­ally mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity as a well-nigh per­fected spirit ex­is­tence, be­com­ing pro­gres­sively less sub­ject to ma­te­rial grav­ity and cor­re­spond­ingly more re­spon­sive to the in­ward pulling urge of spirit grav­ity dur­ing this en­tire ex­pe­ri­ence. The spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit lit­er­ally pulls the soul of man Par­adis­e­ward.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › transmits genuine prayers

7:3.3The spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit is the ba­sic chan­nel for trans­mit­ting the gen­uine prayers of the be­liev­ing hu­man heart from the level of hu­man con­scious­ness to the ac­tual con­scious­ness of De­ity. That which rep­re­sents true spir­i­tual value in your pe­ti­tions will be seized by the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity and will pass im­me­di­ately and si­mul­ta­ne­ously to all di­vine per­son­al­i­ties con­cerned. Each will oc­cupy him­self with that which be­longs to his per­sonal prov­ince. There­fore, in your prac­ti­cal re­li­gious ex­pe­ri­ence, it is im­ma­te­rial whether, in ad­dress­ing your sup­pli­ca­tions, you vi­su­al­ize the Cre­ator Son of your lo­cal uni­verse or the Eter­nal Son at the cen­ter of all things.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › circuit is like neural circuits in human body

7:3.4The dis­crim­i­na­tive op­er­a­tion of the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit might pos­si­bly be com­pared to the func­tions of the neu­ral cir­cuits in the ma­te­rial hu­man body: Sen­sa­tions travel in­ward over the neu­ral paths; some are de­tained and re­sponded to by the lower au­to­matic spinal cen­ters; oth­ers pass on to the less au­to­matic but habit-trained cen­ters of the lower brain, while the most im­por­tant and vi­tal in­com­ing mes­sages flash by these sub­or­di­nate cen­ters and are im­me­di­ately reg­is­tered in the high­est lev­els of hu­man con­scious­ness.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

7:5.6Nei­ther did he pass through the rest that in­ter­venes be­tween the in­ner Ha­vona cir­cuit and the shores of Par­a­dise. It is not pos­si­ble for him, an ab­so­lute be­ing, to sus­pend con­scious­ness of per­son­al­ity, for in him cen­ter all lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity. And dur­ing the times of these be­stowals the cen­tral Par­a­dise lodg­ment of spir­i­tual lu­mi­nos­ity was undimmed, and the Son’s grasp of uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity was undi­min­ished.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

7:6.7Be­tween the Orig­i­nal Mother Son and these hosts of Par­a­dise Sons scat­tered through­out all cre­ation, there is a di­rect and ex­clu­sive chan­nel of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, a chan­nel whose func­tion is in­her­ent in the qual­ity of spir­i­tual kin­ship which unites them in bonds of near-ab­so­lute spir­i­tual as­so­ci­a­tion. This in­ter­son­ship cir­cuit is en­tirely dif­fer­ent from the uni­ver­sal cir­cuit of spirit grav­ity, which also cen­ters in the per­son of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. All Sons of God who take ori­gin in the per­sons of the Par­a­dise De­i­ties are in di­rect and con­stant com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the Eter­nal Mother Son. And such com­mu­ni­ca­tion is in­stan­ta­neous; it is in­de­pen­dent of time though some­times con­di­tioned by space.

• types of gravity › material gravity › creation of Havona first evidence of
• types of gravity › material gravity › first operative upon creation of Havona

8:1.4The God of Ac­tion func­tions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One bil­lion per­fect spheres flash into ex­is­tence. Prior to this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment the space-en­er­gies in­her­ent in Par­a­dise are ex­is­tent and po­ten­tially op­er­a­tive, but they have no ac­tu­al­ity of be­ing; nei­ther can phys­i­cal grav­ity be mea­sured ex­cept by the re­ac­tion of ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to its in­ces­sant pull. There is no ma­te­rial uni­verse at this (as­sumed) eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment, but the very in­stant that one bil­lion worlds ma­te­ri­al­ize, there is in ev­i­dence grav­ity suf­fi­cient and ad­e­quate to hold them in the ev­er­last­ing grasp of Par­a­dise.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › holds physical universes together

8:4.1Par­al­lel­ing the phys­i­cal uni­verse wherein Par­a­dise grav­ity holds all things to­gether is the spir­i­tual uni­verse wherein the word of the Son in­ter­prets the thought of God and, when “made flesh,” demon­strates the lov­ing mercy of the com­bined na­ture of the as­so­ci­ated Cre­ators. But in and through all this ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual cre­ation there is a vast stage whereon the In­fi­nite Spirit and his spirit off­spring show forth the com­bined mercy, pa­tience, and ev­er­last­ing af­fec­tion of the di­vine par­ents to­wards the in­tel­li­gent chil­dren of their co-op­er­a­tive de­vis­ing and mak­ing. Ev­er­last­ing min­istry to mind is the essence of the Spirit’s di­vine char­ac­ter. And all the spirit off­spring of the Con­joint Ac­tor par­take of this de­sire to min­is­ter, this di­vine urge to ser­vice.

• types of gravity › material gravity › physical presence of Paradise is source and substance of g.

9:1.7And herein is an in­fi­nite mys­tery: That the In­fi­nite si­mul­ta­ne­ously re­vealed his in­fin­ity in the Son and as Par­a­dise, and then there springs into ex­is­tence a be­ing equal to God in di­vin­ity, re­flec­tive of the Son’s spir­i­tual na­ture, and ca­pa­ble of ac­ti­vat­ing the Par­a­dise pat­tern, a be­ing pro­vi­sion­ally sub­or­di­nate in sov­er­eignty but in many ways ap­par­ently the most ver­sa­tile in ac­tion. And such ap­par­ent su­pe­ri­or­ity in ac­tion is dis­closed in an at­tri­bute of the Third Source and Cen­ter which is su­pe­rior even to phys­i­cal grav­ity—the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• types of gravity › material gravity › physical presence of Paradise is source and substance of g.
• types of gravity › material gravity › real and eternally dependable

9:3.1The Isle of Par­a­dise is the source and sub­stance of phys­i­cal grav­ity; and that should be suf­fi­cient to in­form you that grav­ity is one of the most real and eter­nally de­pend­able things in the whole phys­i­cal uni­verse of uni­verses. Grav­ity can­not be mod­i­fied or an­nulled ex­cept by the forces and en­er­gies con­jointly spon­sored by the Fa­ther and the Son, which have been in­trusted to, and are func­tion­ally as­so­ci­ated with, the per­son of the Third Source and Cen­ter.

• types of gravity › material gravity › antigravity annuls within a local frame

9:3.3Anti­grav­ity can an­nul grav­ity within a lo­cal frame; it does so by the ex­er­cise of equal force pres­ence. It op­er­ates only with ref­er­ence to ma­te­rial grav­ity, and it is not the ac­tion of mind. The grav­ity-re­sis­tant phe­nom­e­non of a gy­ro­scope is a fair il­lus­tra­tion of the ef­fect of anti­grav­ity but of no value to il­lus­trate the cause of anti­grav­ity.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › part of Infinite Spirit’s personal consciousness

9:6.1The Third Source and Cen­ter, the uni­ver­sal in­tel­li­gence, is per­son­ally con­scious of ev­ery mind, ev­ery in­tel­lect, in all cre­ation, and he main­tains a per­sonal and per­fect con­tact with all these phys­i­cal, mor­ontial, and spir­i­tual crea­tures of mind en­dow­ment in the far-flung uni­verses. All these ac­tiv­i­ties of mind are grasped in the ab­so­lute mind-grav­ity cir­cuit which fo­cal­izes in the Third Source and Cen­ter and is a part of the per­sonal con­scious­ness of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › draws all divine thoughts and perfect ideas

9:6.2Much as the Fa­ther draws all per­son­al­ity to him­self, and as the Son at­tracts all spir­i­tual re­al­ity, so does the Con­joint Ac­tor ex­er­cise a draw­ing power on all minds; he un­qual­i­fiedly dom­i­nates and con­trols the uni­ver­sal mind cir­cuit. All true and gen­uine in­tel­lec­tual val­ues, all di­vine thoughts and per­fect ideas, are unerringly drawn into this ab­so­lute cir­cuit of mind.

9:6.3Mind grav­ity can op­er­ate in­de­pen­dently of ma­te­rial and spir­i­tual grav­ity, but wher­ever and when­ever the lat­ter two im­pinge, mind grav­ity al­ways func­tions. When all three are as­so­ci­ated, per­son­al­ity grav­ity may em­brace the ma­te­rial crea­ture—phys­i­cal or mor­ontial, fi­nite or ab­so­nite. But ir­re­spec­tive of this, the en­dow­ment of mind even in im­per­sonal be­ings qual­i­fies them to think and en­dows them with con­scious­ness de­spite the to­tal ab­sence of per­son­al­ity.

9:6.4Self­hood of per­son­al­ity dig­nity, hu­man or di­vine, im­mor­tal or po­ten­tially im­mor­tal, does not how­ever orig­i­nate in ei­ther spirit, mind, or mat­ter; it is the be­stowal of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Nei­ther is the in­ter­ac­tion of spirit, mind, and ma­te­rial grav­ity a pre­req­ui­site to the ap­pear­ance of per­son­al­ity grav­ity. The Fa­ther’s cir­cuit may em­brace a mind-ma­te­rial be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to spirit grav­ity, or it may in­clude a mind-spirit be­ing who is un­re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. The op­er­a­tion of per­son­al­ity grav­ity is al­ways a vo­li­tional act of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

9:6.5While mind is en­ergy as­so­ci­ated in purely ma­te­rial be­ings and spirit as­so­ci­ated in purely spir­i­tual per­son­al­i­ties, in­nu­mer­able or­ders of per­son­al­ity, in­clud­ing the hu­man, pos­sess minds that are as­so­ci­ated with both en­ergy and spirit. The spir­i­tual as­pects of crea­ture mind un­fail­ingly re­spond to the spirit-grav­ity pull of the Eter­nal Son; the ma­te­rial fea­tures re­spond to the grav­ity urge of the ma­te­rial uni­verse.

9:6.6Cos­mic mind, when not as­so­ci­ated with ei­ther en­ergy or spirit, is sub­ject to the grav­ity de­mands of nei­ther ma­te­rial nor spir­i­tual cir­cuits. Pure mind is sub­ject only to the uni­ver­sal grav­ity grasp of the Con­joint Ac­tor. Pure mind is close of kin to in­fi­nite mind, and in­fi­nite mind (the the­o­ret­i­cal co-or­di­nate of the ab­so­lutes of spirit and en­ergy) is ap­par­ently a law in it­self.

9:6.7The greater the spirit-en­ergy di­ver­gence, the greater the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind; the lesser the di­ver­sity of en­ergy and spirit, the lesser the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind. Ap­par­ently, the max­i­mum func­tion of the cos­mic mind is in the time uni­verses of space. Here mind seems to func­tion in a mid-zone be­tween en­ergy and spirit, but this is not true of the higher lev­els of mind; on Par­a­dise, en­ergy and spirit are es­sen­tially one.

9:6.8The mind-grav­ity cir­cuit is de­pend­able; it em­anates from the Third Per­son of De­ity on Par­a­dise, but not all the ob­serv­able func­tion of mind is pre­dictable. Through­out all known cre­ation there par­al­lels this cir­cuit of mind some lit­tle-un­der­stood pres­ence whose func­tion is not pre­dictable. We be­lieve that this un­pre­dictabil­ity is partly at­tributable to the func­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. What this func­tion is, we do not know; what ac­tu­ates it, we can only con­jec­ture; con­cern­ing its re­la­tion to crea­tures, we can only spec­u­late.

9:6.9Cer­tain phases of the un­pre­dictabil­ity of fi­nite mind may be due to the in­com­plete­ness of the Su­preme Be­ing, and there is a vast zone of ac­tiv­i­ties wherein the Con­joint Ac­tor and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute may pos­si­bly be tan­gent. There is much about mind that is un­known, but of this we are sure: The In­fi­nite Spirit is the per­fect ex­pres­sion of the mind of the Cre­ator to all crea­tures; the Su­preme Be­ing is the evolv­ing ex­pres­sion of the minds of all crea­tures to their Cre­ator.

• characteristics › centers in Father’s personal presence
• types of gravity › material gravity › converges in nether Paradise
• types of gravity › mind gravity › centers in Infinite Spirit
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

11:1.4The Fa­ther is al­ways to be found at this cen­tral lo­ca­tion. Did he move, uni­ver­sal pan­de­mo­nium would be pre­cip­i­tated, for there con­verge in him at this res­i­den­tial cen­ter the uni­ver­sal lines of grav­ity from the ends of cre­ation. Whether we trace the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit back through the uni­verses or fol­low the as­cend­ing per­son­al­i­ties as they jour­ney in­ward to the Fa­ther; whether we trace the lines of ma­te­rial grav­ity to nether Par­a­dise or fol­low the in­surg­ing cy­cles of cos­mic force; whether we trace the lines of spir­i­tual grav­ity to the Eter­nal Son or fol­low the in­ward pro­ces­sional of the Par­a­dise Sons of God; whether we trace out the mind cir­cuits or fol­low the tril­lions upon tril­lions of ce­les­tial be­ings who spring from the In­fi­nite Spirit—by any of these ob­ser­va­tions or by all of them we are led di­rectly back to the Fa­ther’s pres­ence, to his cen­tral abode. Here is God per­son­ally, lit­er­ally, and ac­tu­ally pres­ent. And from his in­fi­nite be­ing there flow the flood-streams of life, en­ergy, and per­son­al­ity to all uni­verses.

• types of gravity › material gravity › physical presence of Paradise is source and substance of g.

11:8.1The in­es­cap­able pull of grav­ity ef­fec­tively grips all the worlds of all the uni­verses of all space. Grav­ity is the all-pow­er­ful grasp of the phys­i­cal pres­ence of Par­a­dise. Grav­ity is the om­nipo­tent strand on which are strung the gleam­ing stars, blaz­ing suns, and whirling spheres which con­sti­tute the uni­ver­sal phys­i­cal adorn­ment of the eter­nal God, who is all things, fills all things, and in whom all things con­sist.

• types of gravity › material gravity › converges in nether Paradise
• types of gravity › material gravity › dark gravity bodies encircling Havona complement Paradise g.

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.

• types of gravity › material gravity › linear (local) gravity › pertains to electrical stage of energy or matter; operates upon materialization
• types of gravity › material gravity › pervaded space exerts antigravity influence
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › also known as absolute gravity

11:8.3Space is non­re­spon­sive to grav­ity, but it acts as an equi­li­brant on grav­ity. With­out the space cush­ion, ex­plo­sive ac­tion would jerk sur­round­ing space bod­ies. Per­vaded space also ex­erts an anti­grav­ity in­flu­ence upon phys­i­cal or lin­ear grav­ity; space can ac­tu­ally neu­tral­ize such grav­ity ac­tion even though it can­not de­lay it. Ab­so­lute grav­ity is Par­a­dise grav­ity. Lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity per­tains to the elec­tri­cal stage of en­ergy or mat­ter; it op­er­ates within the cen­tral, su­per-, and outer uni­verses, wher­ever suit­able ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion has taken place.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › stages of response

11:8.4The nu­mer­ous forms of cos­mic force, phys­i­cal en­ergy, uni­verse power, and var­i­ous ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions dis­close three gen­eral, though not per­fectly clear-cut, stages of re­sponse 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.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › Master Force Organizers modify segregata to be responsive to

11:8.62. Grav­ity Stages (En­ergy). This mod­i­fi­ca­tion of the force-charge of space is pro­duced by the ac­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. It sig­nal­izes the ap­pear­ance of en­ergy sys­tems re­spon­sive to the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. This emer­gent en­ergy is orig­i­nally neu­tral but con­se­quent upon fur­ther meta­mor­pho­sis will ex­hibit the so-called neg­a­tive and pos­i­tive qual­i­ties. We des­ig­nate these stages ul­ti­mata.

• types of gravity › material gravity › Paradise gravity is form of
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › form of physical g.

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.

11:8.8Space po­tency is not sub­ject to the in­ter­ac­tions of any form of grav­i­ta­tion. This pri­mal en­dow­ment of Par­a­dise is not an ac­tual level of re­al­ity, but it is an­ces­tral to all rel­a­tive func­tional non­spirit re­al­i­ties—all man­i­fes­ta­tions of force-en­ergy and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of power and mat­ter. Space po­tency is a term dif­fi­cult to de­fine. It does not mean that which is an­ces­tral to space; its mean­ing should con­vey the idea of the po­ten­cies and po­ten­tials ex­is­tent within space. It may be roughly con­ceived to in­clude all those ab­so­lute in­flu­ences and po­ten­tials which em­anate from Par­a­dise and con­sti­tute the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• types of gravity › material gravity › acts in plane perpendicular to mass

11:8.9Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute source and the eter­nal fo­cal point of all en­ergy-mat­ter in the uni­verse of uni­verses. The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is the re­vealer, reg­u­la­tor, and re­pos­i­tory of that which has Par­a­dise as its source and ori­gin. The uni­ver­sal pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute seems to be equiv­a­lent to the con­cept of a po­ten­tial in­fin­ity of grav­ity ex­ten­sion, an elas­tic ten­sion of Par­a­dise pres­ence. This con­cept aids us in grasp­ing the fact that ev­ery­thing is drawn in­ward to­wards Par­a­dise. The il­lus­tra­tion is crude but nonethe­less help­ful. It also ex­plains why grav­ity al­ways acts pref­er­en­tially in the plane per­pen­dic­u­lar to the mass, a phe­nom­e­non in­dica­tive of the dif­fer­en­tial di­men­sions of Par­a­dise and the sur­round­ing cre­ations.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › all forms of basic energy obey

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.

• characteristics › absolute circuits of personality, spirit, mind, and energy-matter
• characteristics › absolute presence circuits not related to nether Paradise force center
• characteristics › all forms of force-energy subject to presences of

12:3.1All forms of force-en­ergy—ma­te­rial, mindal, or spir­i­tual—are alike sub­ject to those grasps, those uni­ver­sal pres­ences, which we call grav­ity. Per­son­al­ity also is re­spon­sive to grav­ity—to the Fa­ther’s ex­clu­sive cir­cuit; but though this cir­cuit is ex­clu­sive to the Fa­ther, he is not ex­cluded from the other cir­cuits; the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is in­fi­nite and acts over all four ab­so­lute-grav­ity cir­cuits in the mas­ter uni­verse:

12:3.21. The Per­son­al­ity Grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

12:3.32. The Spirit Grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son.

12:3.43. The Mind Grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor.

12:3.54. The Cos­mic Grav­ity of the Isle of Par­a­dise.

• characteristics › absolute presence circuits independent of time and space

12:3.6These four cir­cuits are not re­lated to the nether Par­a­dise force cen­ter; they are nei­ther force, en­ergy, nor power cir­cuits. They are ab­so­lute pres­ence cir­cuits and like God are in­de­pen­dent of time and space.

• types of gravity › material gravity
• types of gravity › material gravity › linear (local) gravity › computable in terms of Paradise g.
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › grand universe absorbs only 5% of

12:3.81. Phys­i­cal Grav­ity. Hav­ing for­mu­lated an es­ti­mate of the sum­ma­tion of the en­tire phys­i­cal-grav­ity ca­pac­ity of the grand uni­verse, they have la­bo­ri­ously ef­fected a com­par­i­son of this find­ing with the es­ti­mated to­tal of ab­so­lute grav­ity pres­ence now op­er­a­tive. These cal­cu­la­tions in­di­cate that the to­tal grav­ity ac­tion on the grand uni­verse is a very small part of the es­ti­mated grav­ity pull of Par­a­dise, com­puted on the ba­sis of the grav­ity re­sponse of ba­sic phys­i­cal units of uni­verse mat­ter. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors reach the amaz­ing con­clu­sion that the cen­tral uni­verse and the sur­round­ing seven super­uni­verses are at the pres­ent time mak­ing use of only about five per cent of the ac­tive func­tion­ing of the Par­a­dise ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp. In other words: At the pres­ent mo­ment about ninety-five per cent of the ac­tive cos­mic-grav­ity ac­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise, com­puted on this to­tal­ity the­ory, is en­gaged in con­trol­ling ma­te­rial sys­tems be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent or­ga­nized uni­verses. These cal­cu­la­tions all re­fer to ab­so­lute grav­ity; lin­ear grav­ity is an in­ter­ac­tive phe­nom­e­non which can be com­puted only by know­ing the ac­tual Par­a­dise grav­ity.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › not operative on outer space levels

12:3.92. Spir­i­tual Grav­ity. By the same tech­nique of com­par­a­tive es­ti­ma­tion and cal­cu­la­tion these re­searchers have ex­plored the pres­ent re­ac­tion ca­pac­ity of spirit grav­ity and, with the co-op­er­a­tion of Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers and other spirit per­son­al­i­ties, have ar­rived at the sum­ma­tion of the ac­tive spirit grav­ity of the Sec­ond Source and Cen­ter. And it is most in­struc­tive to note that they find about the same value for the ac­tual and func­tional pres­ence of spirit grav­ity in the grand uni­verse that they pos­tu­late for the pres­ent to­tal of ac­tive spirit grav­ity. In other words: At the pres­ent time prac­ti­cally the en­tire spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, com­puted on this the­ory of to­tal­ity, is ob­serv­able as func­tion­ing in the grand uni­verse. If these find­ings are de­pend­able, we may con­clude that the uni­verses now evolv­ing in outer space are at the pres­ent time wholly non­spir­i­tual. And if this is true, it would sat­is­fac­to­rily ex­plain why spirit-en­dowed be­ings are in pos­ses­sion of lit­tle or no in­for­ma­tion about these vast en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions aside from know­ing the fact of their phys­i­cal ex­is­tence.

• types of gravity › mind gravity
• types of gravity › mind gravity › 85% takes origin in existing grand universe

12:3.103. Mind Grav­ity. By these same prin­ci­ples of com­par­a­tive com­pu­ta­tion these ex­perts have at­tacked the prob­lem of mind-grav­ity pres­ence and re­sponse. The mind unit of es­ti­ma­tion was ar­rived at by av­er­ag­ing three ma­te­rial and three spir­i­tual types of men­tal­ity, al­though the type of mind found in the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates proved to be a dis­turb­ing fac­tor in the ef­fort to ar­rive at a ba­sic unit for mind-grav­ity es­ti­ma­tion. There was lit­tle to im­pede the es­ti­ma­tion of the pres­ent ca­pac­ity of the Third Source and Cen­ter for mind-grav­ity func­tion in ac­cor­dance with this the­ory of to­tal­ity. Al­though the find­ings in this in­stance are not so con­clu­sive as in the es­ti­mates of phys­i­cal and spirit grav­ity, they are, com­par­a­tively con­sid­ered, very in­struc­tive, even in­trigu­ing. These in­ves­ti­ga­tors de­duce that about eighty-five per cent of the mind-grav­ity re­sponse to the in­tel­lec­tual draw­ing of the Con­joint Ac­tor takes ori­gin in the ex­ist­ing grand uni­verse. This would sug­gest the pos­si­bil­ity that mind ac­tiv­i­ties are in­volved in con­nec­tion with the ob­serv­able phys­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties now in prog­ress through­out the realms of outer space. While this es­ti­mate is prob­a­bly far from ac­cu­rate, it ac­cords, in prin­ci­ple, with our be­lief that in­tel­li­gent force or­ga­niz­ers are at pres­ent di­rect­ing uni­verse evo­lu­tion in the space lev­els be­yond the pres­ent outer lim­its of the grand uni­verse. What­ever the na­ture of this pos­tu­lated in­tel­li­gence, it is ap­par­ently not spirit-grav­ity re­spon­sive.

• types of gravity › material gravity › equilibrated by motion and space

12:4.16It is prob­a­ble that these al­ter­nate di­rec­tions of suc­ces­sive space pro­ces­sions of the uni­verses have some­thing to do with the in­tra­mas­ter uni­verse grav­ity tech­nique of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute, which con­sists of a co-or­di­na­tion of forces and an equal­iza­tion of space ten­sions. Mo­tion as well as space is a com­ple­ment or equi­li­brant of grav­ity.

• types of gravity › material gravity › highly predictable

12:6.5The uni­verse is highly pre­dictable only in the quan­ti­ta­tive or grav­ity-mea­sure­ment sense; even the pri­mal phys­i­cal forces are not re­spon­sive to lin­ear grav­ity, nor are the higher mind mean­ings and true spirit val­ues of ul­ti­mate uni­verse re­al­i­ties. Qual­i­ta­tively, the uni­verse is not highly pre­dictable as re­gards new as­so­ci­a­tions of forces, ei­ther phys­i­cal, mindal, or spir­i­tual, al­though many such com­bi­na­tions of en­er­gies or forces be­come par­tially pre­dictable when sub­jected to crit­i­cal ob­ser­va­tion. When mat­ter, mind, and spirit are uni­fied by crea­ture per­son­al­ity, we are un­able fully to pre­dict the de­ci­sions of such a free­will be­ing.

• characteristics › absolute presence circuits not related to nether Paradise force center

12:8.2The be­stowal of cos­mic force, the do­main of cos­mic grav­ity, is the func­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise. All orig­i­nal force-en­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, and the mat­ter for the mak­ing of un­told uni­verses now cir­cu­lates through­out the mas­ter uni­verse in the form of a super­grav­ity pres­ence which con­sti­tutes the force-charge of per­vaded space.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › as real and absolute as material g.
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

12:8.4The be­stowal of spirit and the spir­i­tu­al­iza­tion of per­son­al­i­ties, the do­main of spir­i­tual grav­ity, is the realm of the Eter­nal Son. And this spirit grav­ity of the Son, ever draw­ing all spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties to him­self, is just as real and ab­so­lute as is the all-pow­er­ful ma­te­rial grasp of the Isle of Par­a­dise. But ma­te­rial-minded man is nat­u­rally more fa­mil­iar with the ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions of a phys­i­cal na­ture than with the equally real and mighty op­er­a­tions of a spir­i­tual na­ture which are dis­cerned only by the spir­i­tual in­sight of the soul.

• types of gravity › material gravity › ascenders’ minds become less subject to
• types of gravity › material gravity › quantitative determiner of nonspirit energy
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › qualitative measure of divinity

12:8.5As the mind of any per­son­al­ity in the uni­verse be­comes more spir­i­tual—God­like—it be­comes less re­spon­sive to ma­te­rial grav­ity. Re­al­ity, mea­sured by phys­i­cal-grav­ity re­sponse, is the an­tithe­sis of re­al­ity as de­ter­mined by qual­ity of spirit con­tent. Phys­i­cal-grav­ity ac­tion is a quan­ti­ta­tive de­ter­miner of non­spirit en­ergy; spir­i­tual-grav­ity ac­tion is the qual­i­ta­tive mea­sure of the liv­ing en­ergy of di­vin­ity.

• characteristics › laws of force, energy, and matter
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › ultimata not responsive to

15:4.1While cre­ation and uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion re­main for­ever un­der the con­trol of the in­fi­nite Cre­ators and their as­so­ciates, the whole phe­nom­e­non pro­ceeds in ac­cor­dance with an or­dained tech­nique and in con­for­mity to the grav­ity laws of force, en­ergy, and mat­ter. But there is some­thing of mys­tery as­so­ci­ated with the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space; we quite un­der­stand the or­ga­ni­za­tion of the ma­te­rial cre­ations from the ul­ti­ma­tonic stage for­ward, but we do not fully com­pre­hend the cos­mic an­ces­try of the ul­ti­ma­tons. We are con­fi­dent that these an­ces­tral forces have a Par­a­dise ori­gin be­cause they for­ever swing through per­vaded space in the ex­act gi­gan­tic out­lines of Par­a­dise. Though non­re­spon­sive to Par­a­dise grav­ity, this force-charge of space, the an­ces­tor of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, does al­ways re­spond to the pres­ence of nether Par­a­dise, be­ing ap­par­ently cir­cuited in and out of the nether Par­a­dise cen­ter.

• types of gravity › material gravity › mass in matter retards velocity in energy

15:8.3Evolv­ing en­ergy has sub­stance; it has weight, al­though weight is al­ways rel­a­tive, de­pend­ing on rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity, mass, and anti­grav­ity. Mass in mat­ter tends to re­tard ve­loc­ity in en­ergy; and the any­where-pres­ent ve­loc­ity of en­ergy rep­re­sents: the ini­tial en­dow­ment of ve­loc­ity, mi­nus re­tar­da­tion by mass en­coun­tered in tran­sit, plus the reg­u­la­tory func­tion of the liv­ing en­ergy con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verse and the phys­i­cal in­flu­ence of near-by highly heated or heav­ily charged bod­ies.

• types of gravity › material gravity › factors preventing g. from converting all energy to matter

15:8.5Given a suf­fi­cient du­ra­tion of re­tard­ing in­flu­ence, grav­ity would even­tu­ally con­vert all en­ergy into mat­ter were it not for two fac­tors: First, be­cause of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of the en­ergy con­trol­lers, and sec­ond, be­cause or­ga­nized mat­ter tends to dis­in­te­grate un­der cer­tain con­di­tions found in very hot stars and un­der cer­tain pe­cu­liar con­di­tions in space near highly en­er­gized cold bod­ies of con­densed mat­ter.

15:8.6When mass be­comes over­ag­gre­gated and threat­ens to un­bal­ance en­ergy, to de­plete the phys­i­cal power cir­cuits, the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers in­ter­vene un­less grav­ity’s own fur­ther ten­dency to over­ma­te­ri­al­ize en­ergy is de­feated by the oc­cur­rence of a col­li­sion among the dead gi­ants of space, thus in an in­stant com­pletely dis­si­pat­ing the cu­mu­la­tive col­lec­tions of grav­ity. In these col­li­sional episodes enor­mous masses of mat­ter are sud­denly con­verted into the rarest form of en­ergy, and the strug­gle for uni­ver­sal equi­lib­rium is be­gun anew. Even­tu­ally the larger phys­i­cal sys­tems be­come sta­bi­lized, be­come phys­i­cally set­tled, and are swung into the bal­anced and es­tab­lished cir­cuits of the super­uni­verses. Sub­se­quent to this event no more col­li­sions or other dev­as­tat­ing catas­tro­phes will oc­cur in such es­tab­lished sys­tems.

• types of gravity › material gravity › organizes matter

15:8.10The super­uni­verse of Or­von­ton is ap­par­ently now run­ning down; the outer uni­verses seem to be wind­ing up for un­par­al­leled fu­ture ac­tiv­i­ties; the cen­tral Ha­vona uni­verse is eter­nally sta­bi­lized. Grav­ity and ab­sence of heat (cold) or­ga­nize and hold mat­ter to­gether; heat and anti­grav­ity dis­rupt mat­ter and dis­si­pate en­ergy. The liv­ing power di­rec­tors and force or­ga­niz­ers are the se­cret of the spe­cial con­trol and in­tel­li­gent di­rec­tion of the end­less meta­mor­phoses of uni­verse mak­ing, un­mak­ing, and re­mak­ing. Neb­u­lae may dis­perse, suns burn out, sys­tems van­ish, and plan­ets per­ish, but the uni­verses do not run down.

• characteristics › absolute circuits of personality, spirit, mind, and energy-matter

15:9.1The uni­ver­sal cir­cuits of Par­a­dise do ac­tu­ally per­vade the realms of the seven super­uni­verses. These pres­ence cir­cuits are: the per­son­al­ity grav­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the spir­i­tual grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son, the mind grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor, and the ma­te­rial grav­ity of the eter­nal Isle.

15:9.2In ad­di­tion to the uni­ver­sal Par­a­dise cir­cuits and in ad­di­tion to the pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties, there func­tion within the super­uni­verse space level only two en­ergy-cir­cuit di­vi­sions or power seg­re­ga­tions: the super­uni­verse cir­cuits and the lo­cal uni­verse cir­cuits.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › grasps basic units of matter

21:2.12The per­sonal pres­ence of a Cre­ator Son in his lo­cal uni­verse is not nec­es­sary to the smooth run­ning of an es­tab­lished ma­te­rial cre­ation. Such Sons may jour­ney to Par­a­dise, and still their uni­verses swing on through space. They may lay down their lines of power to in­car­nate as the chil­dren of time; still their realms whirl on about their re­spec­tive cen­ters. No ma­te­rial or­ga­ni­za­tion is in­de­pen­dent of the ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise or of the cos­mic over­con­trol in­her­ent in the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• types of gravity › material gravity › Solitary Messengers highly sensitive to

23:2.20They go forth to in­ves­ti­gate the clues fur­nished by the space con­tem­pla­tors of the realms. Un­doubt­edly the Par­a­dise De­i­ties know of the ex­is­tence of these undis­cov­ered en­ergy sys­tems of space, but they never di­vulge such in­for­ma­tion. If the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers did not ex­plore and chart these newly or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy cen­ters, such phe­nom­ena would long re­main un­no­ticed even by the in­tel­li­gences of ad­ja­cent realms. Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers, as a class, are highly sen­si­tive to grav­ity; ac­cord­ingly they can some­times de­tect the prob­a­ble pres­ence of very small dark plan­ets, the very worlds which are best adapted to life ex­per­i­ments.

• types of gravity › material gravity › many nonpersonal beings utilize g. for transit, as do Gravity Messengers and Transcendental Recorders

23:3.2The uni­verse is well sup­plied with spir­its who uti­lize grav­ity for pur­poses of tran­sit; they can go any­where any time—in­stan­ter—but they are not per­sons. Cer­tain other grav­ity tra­versers are per­sonal be­ings, such as Grav­ity Mes­sen­gers and Tran­scen­den­tal Re­cord­ers, but they are not avail­able to the su­per- and the lo­cal uni­verse ad­min­is­tra­tors. The worlds teem with an­gels and men and other highly per­sonal be­ings, but they are hand­i­capped by time and space: The limit of ve­loc­ity for most nonenseraphimed be­ings is 186,280 miles of your world per sec­ond of your time; the mid­way crea­tures and cer­tain oth­ers can, of­ten do, at­tain dou­ble ve­loc­ity—372,560 miles per sec­ond—while the ser­a­phim and oth­ers can tra­verse space at triple ve­loc­ity, about 558,840 miles per sec­ond. There are, how­ever, no tran­sit or mes­sen­ger per­son­al­i­ties who func­tion be­tween the in­stan­ta­neous ve­loc­i­ties of the grav­ity tra­versers and the com­par­a­tively slow speeds of the ser­a­phim, ex­cept the Soli­tary Mes­sen­gers.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › Michael’s spirit g. is same as Eternal Son’s would be in Nebadon

33:1.3Our Cre­ator Son ex­erts the same spir­i­tual draw­ing power, spirit grav­ity, from the head­quar­ters of the lo­cal uni­verse that the Eter­nal Son of Par­a­dise would ex­ert if he were per­son­ally pres­ent on Sal­ving­ton, and more; this Uni­verse Son is also the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther to the uni­verse of Neb­a­don. Cre­ator Sons are per­son­al­ity cen­ters for the spir­i­tual forces of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther-Son. Cre­ator Sons are the fi­nal power-per­son­al­ity fo­cal­iza­tions of the mighty time-space at­tri­butes of God the Sev­en­fold.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › independent of time and space; undiminished in transmission
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

34:3.5Though the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son op­er­ates in­de­pen­dently of both time and space, all func­tions of the Cre­ator Sons are not ex­empt from space lim­i­ta­tions. If the trans­ac­tions of the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds are ex­cepted, these Mi­chael Sons seem to be able to op­er­ate rel­a­tively in­de­pen­dent of time. A Cre­ator Son is not hand­i­capped by time, but he is con­di­tioned by space; he can­not per­son­ally be in two places at the same time. Mi­chael of Neb­a­don acts time­lessly within his own uni­verse and by re­flec­tiv­ity prac­ti­cally so in the super­uni­verse. He com­mu­ni­cates time­lessly with the Eter­nal Son di­rectly.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › circuit in Nebadon

34:4.1There are three dis­tinct spirit cir­cuits in the lo­cal uni­verse of Neb­a­don:

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › circuits in Nebadon are Holy Spirit and Spirit of Truth

34:4.32. The spirit cir­cuit of the Di­vine Min­is­ter, the Holy Spirit.

34:4.43. The in­tel­li­gence-min­istry cir­cuit, in­clud­ing the more or less uni­fied ac­tiv­i­ties but di­verse func­tion­ing of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its.

• characteristics › life and pattern not responsive to

36:6.6We speak of life as “en­ergy” and as “force,” but it is re­ally nei­ther. Force-en­ergy is var­i­ously grav­ity re­spon­sive; life is not. Pat­tern is also non­re­spon­sive to grav­ity, be­ing a con­fig­u­ra­tion of en­er­gies that have al­ready ful­filled all grav­ity-re­spon­sive obli­ga­tions. Life, as such, con­sti­tutes the an­i­ma­tion of some pat­tern-con­fig­ured or oth­er­wise seg­re­gated sys­tem of en­ergy—ma­te­rial, mindal, or spir­i­tual.

• types of gravity › material gravity › calcium atom partially defies g.

41:6.4Cal­cium is an ac­tive and ver­sa­tile el­e­ment at so­lar tem­per­a­tures. The stone atom has two ag­ile and loosely at­tached elec­trons in the two outer elec­tronic cir­cuits, which are very close to­gether. Early in the atomic strug­gle it loses its outer elec­tron; where­upon it en­gages in a mas­ter­ful act of jug­gling the nine­teenth elec­tron back and forth be­tween the nine­teenth and twen­ti­eth cir­cuits of elec­tronic rev­o­lu­tion. By toss­ing this nine­teenth elec­tron back and forth be­tween its own or­bit and that of its lost com­pan­ion more than twenty-five thou­sand times a sec­ond, a mu­ti­lated stone atom is able par­tially to defy grav­ity and thus suc­cess­fully to ride the emerg­ing streams of light and en­ergy, the sun­beams, to lib­erty and ad­ven­ture. This cal­cium atom moves out­ward by al­ter­nate jerks of for­ward propul­sion, grasp­ing and let­ting go the sun­beam about twenty-five thou­sand times each sec­ond. And this is why stone is the chief com­po­nent of the worlds of space. Cal­cium is the most ex­pert so­lar-prison es­ca­per.

41:6.5The agility of this ac­ro­batic cal­cium elec­tron is in­di­cated by the fact that, when tossed by the tem­per­a­ture-X-ray so­lar forces to the cir­cle of the higher or­bit, it only re­mains in that or­bit for about one one-mil­lionth of a sec­ond; but be­fore the elec­tric-grav­ity power of the atomic nu­cleus pulls it back into its old or­bit, it is able to com­plete one mil­lion rev­o­lu­tions about the atomic cen­ter.

• types of gravity › material gravity › source of solar energy

41:7.96. Grav­ity ac­tion at high tem­per­a­tures trans­forms cer­tain cir­cuitized power into ra­dia­tive en­er­gies.

• types of gravity › material gravity › maintains suns’ brilliance

41:8.2Re­duc­tion of hy­dro­gen con­tent in­creases the lu­mi­nos­ity of a sun. In the suns des­tined to burn out, the height of lu­mi­nos­ity is at­tained at the point of hy­dro­gen ex­haus­tion. Sub­se­quent to this point, bril­liance is main­tained by the re­sul­tant pro­cess of grav­ity con­trac­tion. Even­tu­ally, such a star will be­come a so-called white dwarf, a highly con­densed sphere.

• types of gravity › material gravity › ultimatons not subject to
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › also known as absolute gravity
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › swing of eternal circle of universe
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › ultimatons responsive to

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.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › lines of g. of energies in matter dependent on Paradise

42:1.2Mat­ter—en­ergy—for they are but di­verse man­i­fes­ta­tions of the same cos­mic re­al­ity, as a uni­verse phe­nom­e­non is in­her­ent in the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. “In him all things con­sist.” Mat­ter may ap­pear to man­i­fest in­her­ent en­ergy and to ex­hibit self-con­tained pow­ers, but the lines of grav­ity in­volved in the en­er­gies con­cerned in all these phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena are de­rived from, and are de­pen­dent on, Par­a­dise. The ul­ti­ma­ton, the first mea­sur­able form of en­ergy, has Par­a­dise as its nu­cleus.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › Master Force Organizers modify segregata to be responsive to

42:2.11a. Puis­sant en­ergy. This is the pow­er­ful-di­rec­tional, mass-move­mented, mighty-ten­sioned, and forcible-re­act­ing en­ergy—gi­gan­tic en­ergy sys­tems set in mo­tion by the ac­tiv­i­ties of the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers. This pri­mary or puis­sant en­ergy is not at first def­i­nitely re­spon­sive to the Par­a­dise-grav­ity pull though prob­a­bly yield­ing an ag­gre­gate-mass or space-di­rec­tional re­sponse to the col­lec­tive group of ab­so­lute in­flu­ences op­er­a­tive from the nether side of Par­a­dise. When en­ergy emerges to the level of ini­tial re­sponse to the cir­cu­lar and ab­so­lute-grav­ity grasp of Par­a­dise, the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers give way to the func­tion­ing of their sec­ondary as­so­ciates.

• types of gravity › material gravity › linear (local) gravity › Force Organizers retire in favor of Power Directors upon appearance of linear g.
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › also known as absolute gravity

42:2.12b. Grav­ity en­ergy. The now-ap­pear­ing grav­ity-re­spond­ing en­ergy car­ries the po­ten­tial of uni­verse power and be­comes the ac­tive an­ces­tor of all uni­verse mat­ter. This sec­ondary or grav­ity en­ergy is the prod­uct of the en­ergy elab­o­ra­tion re­sult­ing from the pres­sure-pres­ence and the ten­sion-trends set up by the As­so­ciate Tran­scen­den­tal Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers. In re­sponse to the work of these force ma­nip­u­la­tors, space-en­ergy rapidly passes from the puis­sant to the grav­ity stage, thus be­com­ing di­rectly re­spon­sive to the cir­cu­lar grasp of Par­a­dise (ab­so­lute) grav­ity while dis­clos­ing a cer­tain po­ten­tial for sen­si­tiv­ity to the lin­ear-grav­ity pull in­her­ent in the soon ap­pear­ing ma­te­rial mass of the elec­tronic and the post­elec­tronic stages of en­ergy and mat­ter. Upon the ap­pear­ance of grav­ity re­sponse, the As­so­ciate Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers may re­tire from the en­ergy cy­clones of space pro­vided the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors are assignable to that field of ac­tion.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › Superuniverse Centers begin function when ultimata discloses unmistakable response to

42:2.23Not­with­stand­ing our in­abil­ity fully to com­pre­hend the ori­gin, na­ture, and trans­mu­ta­tions of cos­mic force, we are fully con­ver­sant with all phases of emer­gent-en­ergy be­hav­ior from the times of its di­rect and un­mis­tak­able re­sponse to the ac­tion of Par­a­dise grav­ity—about the time of the be­gin­ning of the func­tion of the super­uni­verse power di­rec­tors.

• types of gravity › material gravity › linear (local) gravity › not fully operative below level of atomic matter electrons

42:4.3The power cen­ters and their as­so­ciates are much con­cerned in the work of trans­mut­ing the ul­ti­ma­ton into the cir­cuits and rev­o­lu­tions of the elec­tron. These unique be­ings con­trol and com­pound power by their skill­ful ma­nip­u­la­tion of the ba­sic units of ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy, the ul­ti­ma­tons. They are mas­ters of en­ergy as it cir­cu­lates in this prim­i­tive state. In li­ai­son with the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers they are able to ef­fec­tively con­trol and di­rect en­ergy even af­ter it has trans­muted to the elec­tri­cal level, the so-called elec­tronic stage. But their range of ac­tion is enor­mously cur­tailed when elec­tron­i­cally or­ga­nized en­ergy swings into the whirls of the atomic sys­tems. Upon such ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion, these en­er­gies fall un­der the com­plete grasp of the draw­ing power of lin­ear grav­ity.

• types of gravity › material gravity › prevents theoretical absolute zero

42:4.6Grav­ity pres­ence and ac­tion is what pre­vents the ap­pear­ance of the the­o­ret­i­cal ab­so­lute zero, for in­ter­stel­lar space does not have the tem­per­a­ture of ab­so­lute zero. Through­out all or­ga­nized space there are grav­ity-re­spond­ing en­ergy cur­rents, power cir­cuits, and ul­ti­ma­tonic ac­tiv­i­ties, as well as or­ga­niz­ing elec­tronic en­er­gies. Prac­ti­cally speak­ing, space is not empty. Even the at­mo­sphere of Uran­tia thins out in­creas­ingly un­til at about three thou­sand miles it be­gins to shade off into the av­er­age space mat­ter in this sec­tion of the uni­verse. The most nearly empty space known in Neb­a­don would yield about one hun­dred ul­ti­ma­tons—the equiv­a­lent of one elec­tron—in each cu­bic inch. Such scarcity of mat­ter is re­garded as prac­ti­cally empty space.

• types of gravity › material gravity › heat disrupts stability of

42:4.8When sub­jected to the heat and pres­sure of cer­tain in­ter­nal so­lar states, all but the most prim­i­tive as­so­ci­a­tions of mat­ter may be bro­ken up. Heat can thus largely over­come grav­ity sta­bil­ity. But no known so­lar heat or pres­sure can con­vert ul­ti­ma­tons back into puis­sant en­ergy.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › ultimatons responsive to

42:6.3Ul­ti­ma­tons func­tion by mu­tual at­trac­tion, re­spond­ing only to the cir­cu­lar Par­a­dise-grav­ity pull. With­out lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse they are thus held in the uni­ver­sal space drift. Ul­ti­ma­tons are ca­pa­ble of ac­cel­er­at­ing rev­o­lu­tion­ary ve­loc­ity to the point of par­tial anti­grav­ity be­hav­ior, but they can­not, in­de­pen­dent of force or­ga­niz­ers or power di­rec­tors, at­tain the crit­i­cal es­cape ve­loc­ity of dein­di­vid­u­a­tion, re­turn to the puis­sant-en­ergy stage. In na­ture, ul­ti­ma­tons es­cape the sta­tus of phys­i­cal ex­is­tence only when par­tic­i­pat­ing in the ter­mi­nal dis­rup­tion of a cooled-off and dy­ing sun.

• characteristics › absolute presence circuits independent of time and space
• types of gravity › material gravity › independent of time
• types of gravity › mind gravity › independent of time
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › independent of time and space; undiminished in transmission

42:11.4Mo­tion and uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion are twin facets of the im­per­sonal time-space mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The lev­els of grav­ity re­sponse for spirit, mind, and mat­ter are quite in­de­pen­dent of time, but only true spirit lev­els of re­al­ity are in­de­pen­dent of space (non­spa­tial). The higher mind lev­els of the uni­verse—the spirit-mind lev­els—may also be non­spa­tial, but the lev­els of ma­te­rial mind, such as hu­man mind, are re­spon­sive to the in­ter­ac­tions of uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion, los­ing this re­sponse only in pro­por­tion to spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Spirit-re­al­ity lev­els are rec­og­nized by their spirit con­tent, and spir­i­tu­al­ity in time and space is mea­sured in­versely to the lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse.

• types of gravity › material gravity › response modified by intervening space inversely as square of distance

42:11.5Lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse is a quan­ti­ta­tive mea­sure of non­spirit en­ergy. All mass—or­ga­nized en­ergy—is sub­ject to this grasp ex­cept as mo­tion and mind act upon it. Lin­ear grav­ity is the short-range co­he­sive force of the macro­cos­mos some­what as the forces of in­tra-atomic co­he­sion are the short-range forces of the mi­cro­cos­mos. Phys­i­cal ma­te­ri­al­ized en­ergy, or­ga­nized as so-called mat­ter, can­not tra­verse space with­out af­fect­ing lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse. Al­though such grav­ity re­sponse is di­rectly pro­por­tional to mass, it is so mod­i­fied by in­ter­ven­ing space that the fi­nal re­sult is no more than roughly ap­prox­i­mated when ex­pressed as in­versely ac­cord­ing to the square of the dis­tance. Space even­tu­ally con­quers lin­ear grav­i­ta­tion be­cause of the pres­ence therein of the anti­grav­ity in­flu­ences of nu­mer­ous super­ma­te­rial forces which op­er­ate to neu­tral­ize grav­ity ac­tion and all re­sponses thereto.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › mind-energy manipulator celestial artisans use in intercommunication

44:5.32. Mind-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. These are the ex­perts of in­ter­com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­ontia and other types of in­tel­li­gent be­ings. This form of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween mor­tals is prac­ti­cally nonex­is­tent on Uran­tia. These are the spe­cial­ists who pro­mote the abil­ity of the as­cend­ing mor­ontia be­ings to com­mu­ni­cate with one an­other, and their work em­braces nu­mer­ous unique ad­ven­tures in in­tel­lect li­ai­son which are far be­yond my power to por­tray to the ma­te­rial mind. These ar­ti­sans are the keen stu­dents of the mind cir­cuits of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

44:5.43. Spir­i­tual-en­ergy ma­nip­u­la­tors. The ma­nip­u­la­tors of spir­i­tual en­ergy are an in­trigu­ing group. Spir­i­tual en­ergy acts in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished laws, just as does phys­i­cal en­ergy. That is, spirit force, when stud­ied, yields de­pend­able de­duc­tions and can be pre­cisely dealt with, even as can the phys­i­cal en­er­gies. There are just as cer­tain and re­li­able laws in the spirit world as ob­tain in the ma­te­rial realms. Dur­ing the last few mil­lions of years many im­proved tech­niques for the in­take of spir­i­tual en­ergy have been ef­fected by these stu­dents of the fun­da­men­tal laws of the Eter­nal Son gov­ern­ing spirit en­ergy as ap­plied to the mor­ontia and other or­ders of ce­les­tial be­ings through­out the uni­verses.

• types of gravity › material gravity › less on Jerusem than Urantia

45:0.1The ad­min­is­tra­tive cen­ter of Sa­ta­nia con­sists of a clus­ter of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, fifty-seven in num­ber—Je­ru­sem it­self, the seven ma­jor satel­lites, and the forty-nine sub­satel­lites. Je­ru­sem, the sys­tem cap­i­tal, is al­most one hun­dred times the size of Uran­tia, al­though its grav­ity is a tri­fle less. Je­ru­sem’s ma­jor satel­lites are the seven tran­si­tion worlds, each of which is about ten times as large as Uran­tia, while the seven sub­satel­lites of these tran­si­tion spheres are just about the size of Uran­tia.

• types of gravity › material gravity › Lucifer said g. was inherent

53:3.21. The re­al­ity of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Lu­cifer charged that the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther did not re­ally ex­ist, that phys­i­cal grav­ity and space-en­ergy were in­her­ent in the uni­verse, and that the Fa­ther was a myth in­vented by the Par­a­dise Sons to en­able them to main­tain the rule of the uni­verses in the Fa­ther’s name. He de­nied that per­son­al­ity was a gift of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. He even in­ti­mated that the fi­nal­i­ters were in col­lu­sion with the Par­a­dise Sons to foist fraud upon all cre­ation since they never brought back a very clear-cut idea of the Fa­ther’s ac­tual per­son­al­ity as it is dis­cern­i­ble on Par­a­dise. He traded on rev­er­ence as ig­no­rance. The charge was sweep­ing, ter­ri­ble, and blas­phe­mous. It was this veiled at­tack upon the fi­nal­i­ters that no doubt in­flu­enced the as­cen­dant cit­i­zens then on Je­ru­sem to stand firm and re­main stead­fast in re­sis­tance to all the rebel’s pro­pos­als.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › best illustration of unity of material universes

56:1.2The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute up­holds the phys­i­cal uni­verse, while the De­ity Ab­so­lute mo­ti­vates the ex­qui­site over­con­trol of all ma­te­rial re­al­ity; and both Ab­so­lutes are func­tion­ally uni­fied by the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This co­he­sive cor­re­la­tion of the ma­te­rial uni­verse is best un­der­stood by all per­son­al­i­ties—ma­te­rial, mor­ontia, ab­so­nite, or spir­i­tual—by the ob­ser­va­tion of the grav­ity re­sponse of all bona fide ma­te­rial re­al­ity to the grav­ity cen­ter­ing on nether Par­a­dise.

• characteristics › centers in Father’s personal presence
• characteristics › unification is universal and unvarying

56:1.3Grav­ity uni­fi­ca­tion is uni­ver­sal and un­vary­ing; pure-en­ergy re­sponse is like­wise uni­ver­sal and in­es­cap­able. Pure en­ergy (pri­mor­dial force) and pure spirit are wholly pre­re­spon­sive to grav­ity. These pri­mal forces, in­her­ing in the Ab­so­lutes, are per­son­ally con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; hence does all grav­ity cen­ter in the per­sonal pres­ence of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther of pure en­ergy and pure spirit and in his super­ma­te­rial abode.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › centers in Infinite Spirit
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › leads directly back to, centers in, Eternal Son

56:3.1As the uni­ver­sal mind grav­ity is cen­tered in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, so does the uni­ver­sal spirit grav­ity cen­ter in the Par­a­dise per­sonal pres­ence of the Eter­nal Son. The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther is one, but to time-space he is re­vealed in the dual phe­nom­ena of pure en­ergy and pure spirit.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › Material Sons maintain immortal status through circuit of

75:7.51. Adam and Eve, like their fel­lows on Je­ru­sem, main­tained im­mor­tal sta­tus through in­tel­lec­tual as­so­ci­a­tion with the mind-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Spirit. When this vi­tal sus­te­nance is bro­ken by men­tal dis­junc­tion, then, re­gard­less of the spir­i­tual level of crea­ture ex­is­tence, im­mor­tal­ity sta­tus is lost. Mor­tal sta­tus fol­lowed by phys­i­cal dis­so­lu­tion was the in­ev­i­ta­ble con­se­quence of the in­tel­lec­tual de­fault of Adam and Eve.

• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › Adjusters traverse space over instantaneous and universal circuits of

107:6.4We know that Thought Ad­justers are spir­its, pure spir­its, pre­sum­ably ab­so­lute spir­its. But the Ad­juster must also be some­thing more than ex­clu­sive spirit re­al­ity. In ad­di­tion to con­jec­tured mind­ed­ness, fac­tors of pure en­ergy are also pres­ent. If you will re­mem­ber that God is the source of pure en­ergy and of pure spirit, it will not be so dif­fi­cult to per­ceive that his frag­ments would be both. It is a fact that the Ad­justers tra­verse space over the in­stan­ta­neous and uni­ver­sal grav­ity cir­cuits of the Par­a­dise Isle.

107:6.5That the Mys­tery Mon­i­tors are thus as­so­ci­ated with the ma­te­rial cir­cuits of the uni­verse of uni­verses is in­deed puz­zling. But it re­mains a fact that they flash through­out the en­tire grand uni­verse over the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuits. It is en­tirely pos­si­ble that they may even pen­e­trate the outer space lev­els; they cer­tainly could fol­low the grav­ity pres­ence of Par­a­dise into these re­gions, and though my or­der of per­son­al­ity can tra­verse the mind cir­cuits of the Con­joint Ac­tor also be­yond the con­fines of the grand uni­verse, we have never been sure of de­tect­ing the pres­ence of Ad­justers in the un­charted re­gions of outer space.

• types of gravity › mind gravity › unerringly clutches all vital meanings
• types of gravity › Paradise gravity › grasps basic units of matter
• types of gravity › spirit gravity › operates directly upon fundamental values of spirit existence

115:6.1The tri­odity of ac­tu­al­ity con­tin­ues to func­tion di­rectly in the post-Ha­vona epochs; Par­a­dise grav­ity grasps the ba­sic units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, the spirit grav­ity of the Eter­nal Son op­er­ates di­rectly upon the fun­da­men­tal val­ues of spirit ex­is­tence, and the mind grav­ity of the Con­joint Ac­tor unerringly clutches all vi­tal mean­ings of in­tel­lec­tual ex­is­tence.

• characteristics › Paradise Deities act directly in circuits of

116:3.1The Par­a­dise De­i­ties not only act di­rectly in their grav­ity cir­cuits through­out the grand uni­verse, but they also func­tion through their var­i­ous agen­cies and other man­i­fes­ta­tions, such as:

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › finaliter alliance with

117:5.3The evolv­ing im­mor­tal soul of man, the joint cre­ation of the ma­te­rial mind and the Ad­juster, as­cends as such to Par­a­dise and sub­se­quently, when mus­tered into the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity, be­comes al­lied in some new way with the spirit-grav­ity cir­cuit of the Eter­nal Son by a tech­nique of ex­pe­ri­ence known as fi­nal­i­ter tran­scen­da­tion. Such fi­nal­i­ters thus be­come ac­cept­able can­di­dates for ex­pe­ri­en­tial rec­og­ni­tion as per­son­al­i­ties of God the Su­preme. And when these mor­tal in­tel­lects in the un­re­vealed fu­ture as­sign­ments of the Corps of the Fi­nal­ity at­tain the sev­enth stage of spirit ex­is­tence, such dual minds will be­come tri­une. These two at­tuned minds, the hu­man and the di­vine, will be­come glo­ri­fied in union with the ex­pe­ri­en­tial mind of the then ac­tu­al­ized Su­preme Be­ing.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › circuits are never permanent possession of ascenders

117:5.7The great cir­cuits of en­ergy, mind, and spirit are never the per­ma­nent pos­ses­sions of as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity; these min­istries re­main for­ever a part of Su­prem­acy. In the mor­tal ex­pe­ri­ence the hu­man in­tel­lect re­sides in the rhyth­mic pul­sa­tions of the ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its and ef­fects its de­ci­sions within the arena pro­duced by en­cir­cuit­ment within this min­istry. Upon mor­tal death the hu­man self is ev­er­last­ingly di­vorced from the ad­ju­tant cir­cuit. While these ad­ju­tants never seem to trans­mit ex­pe­ri­ence from one per­son­al­ity to an­other, they can and do trans­mit the im­per­sonal reper­cus­sions of de­ci­sion-ac­tion through God the Sev­en­fold to God the Su­preme. (At least this is true of the ad­ju­tants of wor­ship and wis­dom.)

117:5.8And so it is with the spir­i­tual cir­cuits: Man uti­lizes these in his as­cent through the uni­verses, but he never pos­sesses them as a part of his eter­nal per­son­al­ity. But these cir­cuits of spir­i­tual min­istry, whether Spirit of Truth, Holy Spirit, or super­uni­verse spirit pres­ences, are re­cep­tive and re­ac­tive to the emerg­ing val­ues in as­cend­ing per­son­al­ity, and these val­ues are faith­fully trans­mit­ted through the Sev­en­fold to the Su­preme.

• types of gravity › material gravity › science can never know what it actually is

133:5.4Sci­en­tists may some day mea­sure the en­ergy, or force man­i­fes­ta­tions, of grav­i­ta­tion, light, and elec­tric­ity, but these same sci­en­tists can never (sci­en­tif­i­cally) tell you what these uni­verse phe­nom­ena are. Sci­ence deals with phys­i­cal-en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties; re­li­gion deals with eter­nal val­ues. True phi­los­o­phy grows out of the wis­dom which does its best to cor­re­late these quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive ob­ser­va­tions. There al­ways ex­ists the dan­ger that the purely phys­i­cal sci­en­tist may be­come af­flicted with math­e­mat­i­cal pride and sta­tis­ti­cal ego­tism, not to men­tion spir­i­tual blind­ness.

• types of gravity › spirit gravity › spirit presence of Eternal Son is channel of all spirit communion

194:2.12In a way, man­kind is sub­ject to the dou­ble in­flu­ence of the sev­en­fold ap­peal of the uni­verse spirit in­flu­ences. The early evo­lu­tion­ary races of mor­tals are sub­ject to the pro­gres­sive con­tact of the seven ad­ju­tant mind-spir­its of the lo­cal uni­verse Mother Spirit. As man pro­gresses up­ward in the scale of in­tel­li­gence and spir­i­tual per­cep­tion, there even­tu­ally come to hover over him and dwell within him the seven higher spirit in­flu­ences. And these seven spir­its of the ad­vanc­ing worlds are: