material energy

• energy-matter is what responds to material-gravity circuit of Paradise

0:6.1Any and all things re­spond­ing to the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit of the Fa­ther, we call per­sonal. Any and all things re­spond­ing to the spirit cir­cuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any and all that re­sponds to the mind cir­cuit of the Con­joint Ac­tor, we call mind, mind as an at­tri­bute of the In­fi­nite Spirit—mind in all its phases. Any and all that re­sponds to the ma­te­rial-grav­ity cir­cuit cen­ter­ing in nether Par­a­dise, we call mat­ter—en­ergy-mat­ter in all its meta­mor­phic states.

• all forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential

0:6.3Phys­i­cal en­ergy is a term de­not­ing all phases and forms of phe­nom­e­nal mo­tion, ac­tion, and po­ten­tial.

• gravity is 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.

• circuits have origin on nether Paradise

11:5.1Con­cern­ing nether Par­a­dise, we know only that which is re­vealed; per­son­al­i­ties do not so­journ there. It has noth­ing what­ever to do with the af­fairs of spirit in­tel­li­gences, nor does the De­ity Ab­so­lute there func­tion. We are in­formed that all phys­i­cal-en­ergy and cos­mic-force cir­cuits have their ori­gin on nether Par­a­dise, and that it is con­sti­tuted as fol­lows:

• ever true to universal law

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.

• ever true to universal law

15:6.16The laws of phys­i­cal-en­ergy be­hav­ior are ba­si­cally uni­ver­sal, but lo­cal in­flu­ences have much to do with the phys­i­cal con­di­tions which pre­vail on in­di­vid­ual plan­ets and in lo­cal sys­tems. An al­most end­less va­ri­ety of crea­ture life and other liv­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions char­ac­ter­izes the count­less worlds of space. There are, how­ever, cer­tain points of sim­i­lar­ity in a group of worlds as­so­ci­ated in a given sys­tem, while there also is a uni­verse pat­tern of in­tel­li­gent life. There are phys­i­cal re­la­tion­ships among those plan­e­tary sys­tems which be­long to the same phys­i­cal cir­cuit, and which closely fol­low each other in the end­less swing around the cir­cle of uni­verses.

• requires 968 million years to encircle superuniverse

15:8.2Fur­ther reg­u­la­tive func­tions are per­formed by the super­uni­verse power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, liv­ing and semiliv­ing in­tel­li­gent en­ti­ties con­sti­tuted for this ex­press pur­pose. These power cen­ters and con­trol­lers are dif­fi­cult of un­der­stand­ing; the lower or­ders are not vo­li­tional, they do not pos­sess will, they do not choose, their func­tions are very in­tel­li­gent but ap­par­ently au­to­matic and in­her­ent in their highly spe­cial­ized or­ga­ni­za­tion. The power cen­ters and phys­i­cal con­trol­lers of the super­uni­verses as­sume di­rec­tion and par­tial con­trol of the thirty en­ergy sys­tems which com­prise the gravita do­main. The phys­i­cal-en­ergy cir­cuits ad­min­is­tered by the power cen­ters of Uversa re­quire a lit­tle over 968 mil­lion years to com­plete the en­cir­clement of the super­uni­verse.

• Master Spirits involved in fluctuations of

16:4.113. The fluc­tu­a­tions in en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions ex­hib­ited by the lin­ear-grav­ity-re­spond­ing units of or­ga­nized mat­ter.

16:4.124. The be­hav­ior of emer­gent en­ergy when fully lib­er­ated from the grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, thus be­com­ing re­spon­sive to the di­rect in­flu­ence of lin­ear grav­ity and to the ma­nip­u­la­tions of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates.

• dominated by Infinite Spirit

21:2.41. En­ergy-mat­ter is dom­i­nated by the In­fi­nite Spirit. Be­fore any new forms of things, great or small, may be cre­ated, be­fore any new trans­for­ma­tions of en­ergy-mat­ter may be at­tempted, a Cre­ator Son must se­cure the con­sent and work­ing co-op­er­a­tion of the In­fi­nite Spirit.

• controlled by Universe Power Directors

24:1.1The vast power cur­rents of space and the cir­cuits of spirit en­ergy may seem to op­er­ate au­to­mat­i­cally; they may ap­pear to func­tion with­out let or hin­drance, but such is not the case. All these stu­pen­dous sys­tems of en­ergy are un­der con­trol; they are sub­ject to in­tel­li­gent super­vi­sion. Uni­verse Cir­cuit Super­vi­sors are con­cerned, not with the realms of purely phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial en­ergy—the do­main of the Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors—but with the cir­cuits of rel­a­tive spir­i­tual en­ergy and with those mod­i­fied cir­cuits which are es­sen­tial to the main­te­nance of both the highly de­vel­oped spir­i­tual be­ings and the mor­ontia or tran­si­tion type of in­tel­li­gent crea­tures. The super­vi­sors do not give ori­gin to cir­cuits of en­ergy and super­es­sence of di­vin­ity, but in gen­eral they have to do with all higher spirit cir­cuits of time and eter­nity and with all rel­a­tive spirit cir­cuits con­cerned in the ad­min­is­tra­tion of the com­po­nent parts of the grand uni­verse. They di­rect and ma­nip­u­late all such spirit-en­ergy cir­cuits out­side the Isle of Par­a­dise.