Maltese cross

• vertical cross section of space resembles

11:7.3The ver­ti­cal cross sec­tion of to­tal space would slightly re­sem­ble a Mal­tese cross, with the hor­i­zon­tal arms rep­re­sent­ing per­vaded (uni­verse) space and the ver­ti­cal arms rep­re­sent­ing un­per­vaded (reser­voir) space. The ar­eas be­tween the four arms would sep­a­rate them some­what as the midspace zones sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. These qui­es­cent midspace zones grow larger and larger at greater and greater dis­tances from Par­a­dise and even­tu­ally en­com­pass the bor­ders of all space and com­pletely in­cap­su­late both the space reser­voirs and the en­tire hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space.

11:7.4Space is nei­ther a sub­ab­so­lute con­di­tion within, nor the pres­ence of, the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, nei­ther is it a func­tion of the Ul­ti­mate. It is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, and the space of the grand uni­verse and that of all outer re­gions is be­lieved to be ac­tu­ally per­vaded by the an­ces­tral space po­tency of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. From near ap­proach to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, this per­vaded space ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward through the fourth space level and be­yond the pe­riph­ery of the mas­ter uni­verse, but how far be­yond we do not know.

11:7.5If you imag­ine a fi­nite, but in­con­ceiv­ably large, V-shaped plane sit­u­ated at right an­gles to both the up­per and lower sur­faces of Par­a­dise, with its point nearly tan­gent to pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise, and then vi­su­al­ize this plane in el­lip­ti­cal rev­o­lu­tion about Par­a­dise, its rev­o­lu­tion would roughly out­line the vol­ume of per­vaded space.