matter

• defined as › 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.

• modifications of matter › Absolutes seem to supersede m.

4:1.8I am en­tirely com­pe­tent to trace out and to an­a­lyze the work­ing of all phe­nom­ena di­rectly re­sult­ing from the func­tion­ing of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther, the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and, to a large ex­tent, the Isle of Par­a­dise. My per­plex­ity is oc­ca­sioned by en­coun­ter­ing what ap­pears to be the per­for­mance of their mys­te­ri­ous co-or­di­nates, the three Ab­so­lutes of po­ten­tial­ity. These Ab­so­lutes seem to su­per­sede mat­ter, to tran­scend mind, and to super­vene spirit. I am con­stantly con­fused and of­ten per­plexed by my in­abil­ity to com­pre­hend these com­plex trans­ac­tions which I at­trib­ute to the pres­ences and per­for­mances of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, the De­ity Ab­so­lute, and the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute.

• defined as › physical presence of the Infinite

5:2.1The phys­i­cal pres­ence of the In­fi­nite is the re­al­ity of the ma­te­rial uni­verse. The mind pres­ence of De­ity must be de­ter­mined by the depth of in­di­vid­ual in­tel­lec­tual ex­pe­ri­ence and by the evo­lu­tion­ary per­son­al­ity level. The spir­i­tual pres­ence of Di­vin­ity must of ne­ces­sity be dif­fer­en­tial in the uni­verse. It is de­ter­mined by the spir­i­tual ca­pac­ity of re­cep­tiv­ity and by the de­gree of the con­se­cra­tion of the crea­ture’s will to the do­ing of the di­vine will.

• appearance of matter › Infinite Spirit can slow energy down to become m.

9:3.4Still fur­ther does the Con­joint Ac­tor dis­play pow­ers which can tran­scend force and neu­tral­ize en­ergy. Such pow­ers op­er­ate by slow­ing down en­ergy to the point of ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and by other tech­niques un­known to you.

• appearance of matter › space is womb for some forms of
• defined as › same thing as light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemism, and energy

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.

• ever true to Father’s purpose

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.

• defined as › diverse manifestation of same reality as energy
• defined as › organized energy subject to linear gravity modified by motion and mind

12:8.101. Mat­ter. Or­ga­nized en­ergy which is sub­ject to lin­ear grav­ity ex­cept as it is mod­i­fied by mo­tion and con­di­tioned by mind.

• absolute of m. converges in Father

12:8.13The goal of ex­is­tence of all per­son­al­i­ties is spirit; ma­te­rial man­i­fes­ta­tions are rel­a­tive, and the cos­mic mind in­ter­venes be­tween these uni­ver­sal op­po­sites. The be­stowal of mind and the min­is­tra­tion of spirit are the work of the as­so­ciate per­sons of De­ity, the In­fi­nite Spirit and the Eter­nal Son. To­tal De­ity re­al­ity is not mind but spirit-mind—mind-spirit uni­fied by per­son­al­ity. Nev­er­the­less the ab­so­lutes of both the spirit and the thing con­verge in the per­son of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• defined as › philosophic shadow cast by mind in presence of spirit

12:8.15In cos­mic evo­lu­tion mat­ter be­comes a philo­sophic shadow cast by mind in the pres­ence of spirit lu­mi­nos­ity of di­vine en­light­en­ment, but this does not in­val­i­date the re­al­ity of mat­ter-en­ergy. Mind, mat­ter, and spirit are equally real, but they are not of equal value to per­son­al­ity in the at­tain­ment of di­vin­ity. Con­scious­ness of di­vin­ity is a pro­gres­sive spir­i­tual ex­pe­ri­ence.

12:8.16The brighter the shin­ing of the spir­i­tu­al­ized per­son­al­ity (the Fa­ther in the uni­verse, the frag­ment of po­ten­tial spirit per­son­al­ity in the in­di­vid­ual crea­ture), the greater the shadow cast by the in­ter­ven­ing mind upon its ma­te­rial in­vest­ment. In time, man’s body is just as real as mind or spirit, but in death, both mind (iden­tity) and spirit sur­vive while the body does not. A cos­mic re­al­ity can be nonex­is­tent in per­son­al­ity ex­pe­ri­ence. And so your Greek fig­ure of speech—the ma­te­rial as the shadow of the more real spirit sub­stance—does have a philo­sophic sig­nif­i­cance.

• of sacred spheres of Paradise is of unrevealed order

13:0.2These three seven-world cir­cuits of the Fa­ther, the Son, and the Spirit are spheres of un­ex­celled grandeur and unimag­ined glory. Even their ma­te­rial or phys­i­cal con­struc­tion is of an or­der un­re­vealed to you. Each cir­cuit is di­verse in ma­te­rial, and each world of each cir­cuit is dif­fer­ent ex­cept­ing the seven worlds of the Son, which are alike in phys­i­cal con­sti­tu­tion. All twenty-one are enor­mous spheres, and each group of seven is dif­fer­ently eter­nal­ized. As far as we know they have al­ways been; like Par­a­dise they are eter­nal. There ex­ists nei­ther rec­ord nor tra­di­tion of their ori­gin.

• appearance of matter › force-charge of space is ancestor of all m.
• appearance of matter › Master Force Organizers transmute absoluta into segregata; Universe Power Directors and gravity transmute segregata into m.

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.

15:4.2The Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers trans­mute space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force and evolve this pre­ma­te­rial po­ten­tial into the pri­mary and sec­ondary en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions of phys­i­cal re­al­ity. When this en­ergy at­tains grav­ity-re­spond­ing lev­els, the power di­rec­tors and their as­so­ciates of the super­uni­verse regime ap­pear upon the scene and be­gin their never-end­ing ma­nip­u­la­tions de­signed to es­tab­lish the man­i­fold power cir­cuits and en­ergy chan­nels of the uni­verses of time and space. Thus does phys­i­cal mat­ter ap­pear in space, and so is the stage set for the in­au­gu­ra­tion of uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion.

15:4.3This seg­men­ta­tion of en­ergy is a phe­nom­e­non which has never been solved by the physi­cists of Neb­a­don. Their chief dif­fi­culty lies in the rel­a­tive in­ac­ces­si­bil­ity of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers, for the liv­ing power di­rec­tors, though they are com­pe­tent to deal with space-en­ergy, do not have the least con­cep­tion of the ori­gin of the en­er­gies they so skill­fully and in­tel­li­gently ma­nip­u­late.

15:4.4Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers are neb­u­lae orig­i­na­tors; they are able to ini­ti­ate about their space pres­ence the tremen­dous cy­clones of force which, when once started, can never be stopped or lim­ited un­til the all-per­vad­ing forces are mo­bi­lized for the even­tual ap­pear­ance of the ul­ti­ma­tonic units of uni­verse mat­ter. Thus are brought into be­ing the spi­ral and other neb­u­lae, the mother wheels of the di­rect-ori­gin suns and their var­ied sys­tems. In outer space there may be seen ten dif­fer­ent forms of neb­u­lae, phases of pri­mary uni­verse evo­lu­tion, and these vast en­ergy wheels had the same ori­gin as did those in the seven super­uni­verses.

• appearance of matter › most m. originates in nebulae
• appearance of matter › power directors transmute energy into m.; organize architectural spheres
• appearance of matter › space is womb for some forms of

15:5.1The bulk of the mass con­tained in the suns and plan­ets of a super­uni­verse orig­i­nates in the neb­u­lar wheels; very lit­tle of super­uni­verse mass is or­ga­nized by the di­rect ac­tion of the power di­rec­tors (as in the con­struc­tion of ar­chi­tec­tural spheres), al­though a con­stantly vary­ing quan­tity of mat­ter orig­i­nates in open space.

• vast amount of m. circulates in space

15:5.97. Cu­mu­la­tive Spheres. From the vast quan­tity of mat­ter cir­cu­lat­ing in space, small plan­ets may slowly ac­cu­mu­late. They grow by me­te­oric ac­cre­tion and by mi­nor col­li­sions. In cer­tain sec­tors of space, con­di­tions fa­vor such forms of plan­e­tary birth. Many an in­hab­ited world has had such an ori­gin.

• fully condensed in burned-out suns

15:5.118. Burned-out Suns. Some of the dark is­lands of space are burned-out iso­lated suns, all avail­able space-en­ergy hav­ing been emit­ted. The or­ga­nized units of mat­ter ap­prox­i­mate full con­den­sa­tion, vir­tual com­plete con­sol­i­da­tion; and it re­quires ages upon ages for such enor­mous masses of highly con­densed mat­ter to be recharged in the cir­cuits of space and thus to be pre­pared for new cy­cles of uni­verse func­tion fol­low­ing a col­li­sion or some equally re­viv­i­fy­ing cos­mic hap­pen­ing.

• enormous amount of energy stored in m.

15:6.9The tril­lions upon tril­lions of years that an or­di­nary sun will con­tinue to give out heat and light well il­lus­trates the vast store of en­ergy which each unit of mat­ter con­tains. The ac­tual en­ergy stored in these in­vis­i­ble par­ti­cles of phys­i­cal mat­ter is well-nigh unimag­in­able. And this en­ergy be­comes al­most wholly avail­able as light when sub­jected to the tremen­dous heat pres­sure and the as­so­ci­ated en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties which pre­vail in the in­te­rior of the blaz­ing suns. Still other con­di­tions en­able these suns to trans­form and send forth much of the en­ergy of space which comes their way in the es­tab­lished space cir­cuits. Many phases of phys­i­cal en­ergy and all forms of mat­ter are at­tracted to, and sub­se­quently dis­tributed by, the so­lar dy­namos. In this way the suns serve as lo­cal ac­cel­er­a­tors of en­ergy cir­cu­la­tion, act­ing as au­to­matic power-con­trol sta­tions.

• mass in m. 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.

• appearance of matter › power directors transmute energy into m.; organize architectural spheres
• modifications of matter › power directors maintain equilibrium between energy and m. by making and unmaking lesser material units

15:8.4The uni­ver­sal plan for the main­te­nance of equi­lib­rium be­tween mat­ter and en­ergy ne­ces­si­tates the ev­er­last­ing mak­ing and un­mak­ing of the lesser ma­te­rial units. The Uni­verse Power Di­rec­tors have the abil­ity to con­dense and de­tain, or to ex­pand and lib­er­ate, vary­ing quan­ti­ties of en­ergy.

• appearance of matter › gravity converts energy into m.
• modifications of matter › conditions which disintegrate m.
• modifications of matter › m. is organized by gravity and cold; disrupted by antigravity and heat

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.

15:8.7Dur­ing the times of plus en­ergy there are power dis­tur­bances and heat fluc­tu­a­tions ac­com­pa­nied by elec­tri­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions. Dur­ing times of mi­nus en­ergy there are in­creased ten­den­cies for mat­ter to ag­gre­gate, con­dense, and to get out of con­trol in the more del­i­cately bal­anced cir­cuits, with re­sul­tant tidal or col­li­sional ad­just­ments which quickly re­store the bal­ance be­tween cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy and more lit­er­ally sta­bi­lized mat­ter. To fore­cast and oth­er­wise to un­der­stand such likely be­hav­ior of the blaz­ing suns and the dark is­lands of space is one of the tasks of the ce­les­tial star ob­servers.

15:8.8We are able to rec­og­nize most of the laws gov­ern­ing uni­verse equi­lib­rium and to pre­dict much per­tain­ing to uni­verse sta­bil­ity. Prac­ti­cally, our fore­casts are re­li­able, but we are al­ways con­fronted by cer­tain forces which are not wholly amenable to the laws of en­ergy con­trol and mat­ter be­hav­ior known to us. The pre­dictabil­ity of all phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena be­comes in­creas­ingly dif­fi­cult as we pro­ceed out­ward in the uni­verses from Par­a­dise. As we pass be­yond the bor­ders of the per­sonal ad­min­is­tra­tion of the Par­a­dise Rulers, we are con­fronted with in­creas­ing in­abil­ity to reckon in ac­cor­dance with the stan­dards es­tab­lished and the ex­pe­ri­ence ac­quired in con­nec­tion with ob­ser­va­tions hav­ing ex­clu­sively to do with the phys­i­cal phe­nom­ena of the near-by as­tro­nomic sys­tems. Even in the realms of the seven super­uni­verses we are liv­ing in the midst of force ac­tions and en­ergy re­ac­tions which per­vade all our do­mains and ex­tend in uni­fied equi­lib­rium on through all re­gions of outer space.

15:8.9The far­ther out we go, the more cer­tainly we en­counter those vari­a­tional and un­pre­dictable phe­nom­ena which are so unerringly char­ac­ter­is­tic of the un­fath­omable pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes and the ex­pe­ri­en­tial De­i­ties. And these phe­nom­ena must be in­dica­tive of some uni­ver­sal over­con­trol of all things.

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.

• subject to absolute-gravity of Paradise
• subject to cosmic overcontrol of Unqualified Absolute

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.

• spirit dominant over m. in personality

25:1.4In per­son­al­ity re­la­tion­ships the spir­i­tual is dom­i­nant over the ma­te­rial, even though it does not now so ap­pear on Uran­tia; and in the pro­duc­tion of Ha­vona Servi­tals the law of spirit dom­i­nance pre­vails; the es­tab­lished ra­tio yields three spir­i­tual be­ings to one semi­phys­i­cal.

• modifications of matter › primary associators convert space energy to primitive m.

29:4.325. Pri­mary As­so­ci­a­tors. These in­ter­est­ing and in­valu­able en­ti­ties are mas­terly en­ergy con­ser­va­tors and cus­to­di­ans. Some­what as a plant stores so­lar light, so do these liv­ing or­gan­isms store en­ergy dur­ing times of plus man­i­fes­ta­tions. They work on a gi­gan­tic scale, con­vert­ing the en­er­gies of space into a phys­i­cal state not known on Uran­tia. They are also able to carry for­ward these trans­for­ma­tions to the point of pro­duc­ing some of the prim­i­tive units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence. These be­ings sim­ply act by their pres­ence. They are in no way ex­hausted or de­pleted by this func­tion; they act like liv­ing cat­alytic agents.

• appearance of matter › Creator Sons materialize visible m. from pre-existent space energies

32:2.1The Cre­ator Sons are pre­ceded in uni­verse or­ga­ni­za­tion by the power di­rec­tors and other be­ings orig­i­nat­ing in the Third Source and Cen­ter. From the en­er­gies of space, thus pre­vi­ously or­ga­nized, Mi­chael, your Cre­ator Son, es­tab­lished the in­hab­ited realms of the uni­verse of Neb­a­don and ever since has been painstak­ingly de­voted to their ad­min­is­tra­tion. From pre-ex­is­tent en­ergy these di­vine Sons ma­te­ri­al­ize vis­i­ble mat­ter, project liv­ing crea­tures, and with the co-op­er­a­tion of the uni­verse pres­ence of the In­fi­nite Spirit, cre­ate a di­verse ret­inue of spirit per­son­al­i­ties.

• of all suns and planets is identical

41:3.2The suns of Neb­a­don are not un­like those of other uni­verses. The ma­te­rial com­po­si­tion of all suns, dark is­lands, plan­ets, and satel­lites, even me­te­ors, is quite iden­ti­cal. These suns have an av­er­age di­am­e­ter of about one mil­lion miles, that of your own so­lar orb be­ing slightly less. The largest star in the uni­verse, the stel­lar cloud Antares, is four hun­dred and fifty times the di­am­e­ter of your sun and is sixty mil­lion times its vol­ume. But there is abun­dant space to ac­com­mo­date all of these enor­mous suns. They have just as much com­par­a­tive el­bow room in space as one dozen or­anges would have if they were cir­cu­lat­ing about through­out the in­te­rior of Uran­tia, and were the planet a hol­low globe.

• appearance of matter › lines of gravity involved in energies of m. derived from and dependent on Paradise
• defined as › diverse manifestation of same reality as energy

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.

• appearance of matter › power directors transmute energy into m.; organize architectural spheres

42:1.5The cre­ation of en­ergy and the be­stowal of life are the pre­rog­a­tives of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his as­so­ciate Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties. The river of en­ergy and life is a con­tin­u­ous out­pour­ing from the De­i­ties, the uni­ver­sal and united stream of Par­a­dise force go­ing forth to all space. This di­vine en­ergy per­vades all cre­ation. The force or­ga­niz­ers ini­ti­ate those changes and in­sti­tute those mod­i­fi­ca­tions of space-force which even­tu­ate in en­ergy; the power di­rec­tors trans­mute en­ergy into mat­ter; thus the ma­te­rial worlds are born. The Life Car­ri­ers ini­ti­ate those pro­cesses in dead mat­ter which we call life, ma­te­rial life. The Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors like­wise per­form through­out the tran­si­tion realms be­tween the ma­te­rial and the spir­i­tual worlds. The higher spirit Cre­ators in­au­gu­rate sim­i­lar pro­cesses in di­vine forms of en­ergy, and there en­sue the higher spirit forms of in­tel­li­gent life.

• factors resulting in physical properties
• of all suns and planets is identical

42:3.1Mat­ter in all uni­verses, ex­cept­ing in the cen­tral uni­verse, is iden­ti­cal. Mat­ter in its phys­i­cal prop­er­ties de­pends on the rev­o­lu­tion­ary rates of its com­po­nent mem­bers, the num­ber and size of the re­volv­ing mem­bers, their dis­tance from the nu­clear body or the space con­tent of mat­ter, as well as on the pres­ence of cer­tain forces as yet undis­cov­ered on Uran­tia.

42:3.2In the var­ied suns, plan­ets, and space bod­ies there are ten grand di­vi­sions of mat­ter:

42:3.31. Ul­ti­ma­tonic mat­ter—the prime phys­i­cal units of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence, the en­ergy par­ti­cles which go to make up elec­trons.

42:3.42. Sub­elec­tronic mat­ter—the ex­plo­sive and re­pel­lent stage of the so­lar super­gases.

42:3.53. Elec­tronic mat­ter—the elec­tri­cal stage of ma­te­rial dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion—elec­trons, pro­tons, and var­i­ous other units en­ter­ing into the var­ied con­sti­tu­tion of the elec­tronic groups.

42:3.64. Sub­atomic mat­ter—mat­ter ex­ist­ing ex­ten­sively in the in­te­rior of the hot suns.

42:3.75. Shat­tered atoms—found in the cool­ing suns and through­out space.

42:3.86. Ion­ized mat­ter—in­di­vid­ual atoms stripped of their outer (chem­i­cally ac­tive) elec­trons by elec­tri­cal, ther­mal, or X-ray ac­tiv­i­ties and by sol­vents.

42:3.97. Atomic mat­ter—the chem­i­cal stage of el­e­men­tal or­ga­ni­za­tion, the com­po­nent units of molec­u­lar or vis­i­ble mat­ter.

42:3.108. The molec­u­lar stage of mat­ter—mat­ter as it ex­ists on Uran­tia in a state of rel­a­tively sta­ble ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion un­der or­di­nary con­di­tions.

42:3.119. Ra­dioac­tive mat­ter—the dis­or­ga­niz­ing ten­dency and ac­tiv­ity of the heav­ier el­e­ments un­der con­di­tions of mod­er­ate heat and di­min­ished grav­ity pres­sure.

42:3.1210. Col­lapsed mat­ter—the rel­a­tively sta­tion­ary mat­ter found in the in­te­rior of the cold or dead suns. This form of mat­ter is not re­ally sta­tion­ary; there is still some ul­ti­ma­tonic even elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity, but these units are in very close prox­im­ity, and their rates of rev­o­lu­tion are greatly di­min­ished.

42:3.13The fore­go­ing clas­si­fi­ca­tion of mat­ter per­tains to its or­ga­ni­za­tion rather than to the forms of its ap­pear­ance to cre­ated be­ings. Nei­ther does it take into ac­count the pre-emer­gent stages of en­ergy nor the eter­nal ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse.

• defined as › same thing as light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemism, and energy

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.

• ever true to Father’s purpose
• subject to absolute-gravity of Paradise

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.

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.

42:4.4Grav­ity acts pos­i­tively on the power lanes and en­ergy chan­nels of the power cen­ters and the phys­i­cal con­trol­lers, but these be­ings have only a neg­a­tive re­la­tion to grav­ity—the ex­er­cise of their anti­grav­ity en­dow­ments.

• modifications of matter › m. is organized by gravity and cold; disrupted by antigravity and heat

42:4.5Through­out all space, cold and other in­flu­ences are at work cre­atively or­ga­niz­ing ul­ti­ma­tons into elec­trons. Heat is the mea­sure­ment of elec­tronic ac­tiv­ity, while cold merely sig­ni­fies ab­sence of heat—com­par­a­tive en­ergy rest—the sta­tus of the uni­ver­sal force-charge of space pro­vided nei­ther emer­gent en­ergy nor or­ga­nized mat­ter were pres­ent and re­spond­ing to grav­ity.

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.

42:4.7Tem­per­a­ture—heat and cold—is sec­ondary only to grav­ity in the realms of en­ergy and mat­ter evo­lu­tion. Ul­ti­ma­tons are humbly obe­di­ent to tem­per­a­ture ex­tremes. Low tem­per­a­tures fa­vor cer­tain forms of elec­tronic con­struc­tion and atomic as­sem­bly, while high tem­per­a­tures fa­cil­i­tate all sorts of atomic breakup and ma­te­rial dis­in­te­gra­tion.

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.

• suns convert m. into energy

42:4.9The blaz­ing suns can trans­form mat­ter into var­i­ous forms of en­ergy, but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down elec­tronic and ul­ti­ma­tonic ac­tiv­ity to the point of con­vert­ing these en­er­gies into the mat­ter of the realms. Cer­tain elec­tronic as­so­ci­a­tions of a close na­ture, as well as many of the ba­sic as­so­ci­a­tions of nu­clear mat­ter, are formed in the ex­ceed­ingly low tem­per­a­tures of open space, be­ing later aug­mented by as­so­ci­a­tion with larger ac­cre­tions of ma­te­ri­al­iz­ing en­ergy.

42:4.10Through­out all of this never-end­ing meta­mor­pho­sis of en­ergy and mat­ter we must reckon with the in­flu­ence of grav­ity pres­sure and with the anti­grav­ity be­hav­ior of the ul­ti­ma­tonic en­er­gies un­der cer­tain con­di­tions of tem­per­a­ture, ve­loc­ity, and rev­o­lu­tion. Tem­per­a­ture, en­ergy cur­rents, dis­tance, and the pres­ence of the liv­ing force or­ga­niz­ers and the power di­rec­tors also have a bear­ing on all trans­mu­ta­tion phe­nom­ena of en­ergy and mat­ter.

• modifications of matter › formula equating m. to energy
• work which resting m. can perform

42:4.11The in­crease of mass in mat­ter is equal to the in­crease of en­ergy di­vided by the square of the ve­loc­ity of light. In a dy­namic sense the work which rest­ing mat­ter can per­form is equal to the en­ergy ex­pended in bring­ing its parts to­gether from Par­a­dise mi­nus the re­sis­tance of the forces over­come in tran­sit and the at­trac­tion ex­erted by the parts of mat­ter on one an­other.

• appearance of matter › pre-electronic forms

42:4.12The ex­is­tence of pre-elec­tronic forms of mat­ter is in­di­cated by the two atomic weights of lead. The lead of orig­i­nal for­ma­tion weighs slightly more than that pro­duced through ura­nium dis­in­te­gra­tion by way of ra­dium em­a­na­tions; and this dif­fer­ence in atomic weight rep­re­sents the ac­tual loss of en­ergy in the atomic breakup.

• relative integrity of m. assured because energy absorbed or released in quanta

42:4.13The rel­a­tive in­tegrity of mat­ter is as­sured by the fact that en­ergy can be ab­sorbed or re­leased only in those ex­act amounts which Uran­tia sci­en­tists have des­ig­nated quanta. This wise pro­vi­sion in the ma­te­rial realms serves to main­tain the uni­verses as go­ing con­cerns.

42:4.14The quan­tity of en­ergy taken in or given out when elec­tronic or other po­si­tions are shifted is al­ways a “quan­tum” or some mul­ti­ple thereof, but the vi­bra­tory or wave­like be­hav­ior of such units of en­ergy is wholly de­ter­mined by the di­men­sions of the ma­te­rial struc­tures con­cerned. Such wave­like en­ergy rip­ples are 860 times the di­am­e­ters of the ul­ti­ma­tons, elec­trons, atoms, or other units thus per­form­ing. The never-end­ing con­fu­sion at­tend­ing the ob­ser­va­tion of the wave me­chan­ics of quan­tum be­hav­ior is due to the super­im­po­si­tion of en­ergy waves: Two crests can com­bine to make a dou­ble-height crest, while a crest and a trough may com­bine, thus pro­duc­ing mu­tual can­cel­la­tion.

• electronic energy is basis of m.

42:5.64. The elec­tronic stage. This stage of en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion in the seven super­uni­verses. When elec­trons pass from higher to lower en­ergy lev­els of or­bital rev­o­lu­tion, quanta are al­ways given off. Or­bital shift­ing of elec­trons re­sults in the ejec­tion or the ab­sorp­tion of very def­i­nite and uni­form mea­sur­able par­ti­cles of light-en­ergy, while the in­di­vid­ual elec­tron al­ways gives up a par­ti­cle of light-en­ergy when sub­jected to col­li­sion. Wave­like en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions also at­tend upon the per­for­mances of the pos­i­tive bod­ies and the other mem­bers of the elec­tronic stage.

• force-charge of space makes particles appear to be waves
• in space, m. proceeds in direct lines

42:5.14The so-called ether is merely a col­lec­tive name to des­ig­nate a group of force and en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties oc­cur­ring in space. Ul­ti­ma­tons, elec­trons, and other mass ag­gre­ga­tions of en­ergy are uni­form par­ti­cles of mat­ter, and in their tran­sit through space they re­ally pro­ceed in di­rect lines. Light and all other forms of rec­og­niz­able en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tions con­sist of a suc­ces­sion of def­i­nite en­ergy par­ti­cles which pro­ceed in di­rect lines ex­cept as mod­i­fied by grav­ity and other in­ter­ven­ing forces. That these pro­ces­sions of en­ergy par­ti­cles ap­pear as wave phe­nom­ena when sub­jected to cer­tain ob­ser­va­tions is due to the re­sis­tance of the un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated force blan­ket of all space, the hy­po­thet­i­cal ether, and to the in­ter­grav­ity ten­sion of the as­so­ci­ated ag­gre­ga­tions of mat­ter. The spac­ing of the par­ti­cle-in­ter­vals of mat­ter, to­gether with the ini­tial ve­loc­ity of the en­ergy beams, es­tab­lishes the un­du­la­tory ap­pear­ance of many forms of en­ergy-mat­ter.

42:5.15The ex­ci­ta­tion of the con­tent of space pro­duces a wave­like re­ac­tion to the pas­sage of rapidly mov­ing par­ti­cles of mat­ter, just as the pas­sage of a ship through wa­ter ini­ti­ates waves of vary­ing am­pli­tude and in­ter­val.

42:5.16Pri­mor­dial-force be­hav­ior does give rise to phe­nom­ena which are in many ways anal­o­gous to your pos­tu­lated ether. Space is not empty; the spheres of all space whirl and plunge on through a vast ocean of out­spread force-en­ergy; nei­ther is the space con­tent of an atom empty. Nev­er­the­less there is no ether, and the very ab­sence of this hy­po­thet­i­cal ether en­ables the in­hab­ited planet to es­cape falling into the sun and the en­cir­cling elec­tron to re­sist falling into the nu­cleus.

• defined as › energy concentrated into discrete masses

42:6.1While the space charge of uni­ver­sal force is ho­mo­ge­neous and un­dif­fer­en­ti­ated, the or­ga­ni­za­tion of evolved en­ergy into mat­ter en­tails the con­cen­tra­tion of en­ergy into dis­crete masses of def­i­nite di­men­sions and es­tab­lished weight—pre­cise grav­ity re­ac­tion.

• 100 elements exist

42:7.4The lo­cal uni­verses are of dec­i­mal con­struc­tion. There are just one hun­dred dis­tin­guish­able atomic ma­te­ri­al­iza­tions of space-en­ergy in a dual uni­verse; that is the max­i­mum pos­si­ble or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter in Neb­a­don. These one hun­dred forms of mat­ter con­sist of a reg­u­lar se­ries in which from one to one hun­dred elec­trons re­volve around a cen­tral and rel­a­tively com­pact nu­cleus. It is this or­derly and de­pend­able as­so­ci­a­tion of var­i­ous en­er­gies that con­sti­tutes mat­ter.

• appearance of matter › sevenfold organization of prematter

42:9.1Re­li­gion is not alone dog­matic; nat­u­ral phi­los­o­phy equally tends to dog­ma­tize. When a renowned re­li­gious teacher rea­soned that the num­ber seven was fun­da­men­tal to na­ture be­cause there are seven open­ings in the hu­man head, if he had known more of chem­istry, he might have ad­vo­cated such a be­lief founded on a true phe­nom­e­non of the phys­i­cal world. There is in all the phys­i­cal uni­verses of time and space, not­with­stand­ing the uni­ver­sal man­i­fes­ta­tion of the dec­i­mal con­sti­tu­tion of en­ergy, the ever-pres­ent re­minder of the re­al­ity of the sev­en­fold elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of pre­mat­ter.

• appearance of matter › sevenfold organization of prematter

42:9.3This sev­en­fold per­sis­tence of cre­ative con­sti­tu­tion is ex­hib­ited in the chem­i­cal do­mains as a re­cur­rence of sim­i­lar phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal prop­er­ties in seg­re­gated pe­ri­ods of seven when the ba­sic el­e­ments are ar­ranged in the or­der of their atomic weights. When the Uran­tia chem­i­cal el­e­ments are thus ar­ranged in a row, any given qual­ity or prop­erty tends to re­cur by sev­ens. This pe­ri­odic change by sev­ens re­curs di­min­ish­ingly and with vari­a­tions through­out the en­tire chem­i­cal ta­ble, be­ing most markedly ob­serv­able in the ear­lier or lighter atomic group­ings. Start­ing from any one el­e­ment, af­ter not­ing some one prop­erty, such a qual­ity will change for six con­sec­u­tive el­e­ments, but on reach­ing the eighth, it tends to reap­pear, that is, the eighth chem­i­cally ac­tive el­e­ment re­sem­bles the first, the ninth the sec­ond, and so on. Such a fact of the phys­i­cal world un­mis­tak­ably points to the sev­en­fold con­sti­tu­tion of an­ces­tral en­ergy and is in­dica­tive of the fun­da­men­tal re­al­ity of the sev­en­fold di­ver­sity of the cre­ations of time and space. Man should also note that there are seven col­ors in the nat­u­ral spec­trum.

• appearance of matter › Architects of Master Universe designed
• units are stable yet efficiently flexible

42:9.5Phys­i­cal sta­bil­ity as­so­ci­ated with bi­o­logic elas­tic­ity is pres­ent in na­ture only be­cause of the well-nigh in­fi­nite wis­dom pos­sessed by the Mas­ter Ar­chi­tects of cre­ation. Noth­ing less than tran­scen­den­tal wis­dom could ever de­sign units of mat­ter which are at the same time so sta­ble and so ef­fi­ciently flex­i­ble.

• defined as › diverse manifestation of same reality as energy
• defined as › energy concentrated into discrete masses
• modifications of matter › gravitation effect on m. is inverse of square of distance
• modifications of matter › responds to linear gravity, motion, and mind

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.

• defined as › reflected shadow of spirit; skeleton of morontia

42:12.14The spirit is the cre­ative re­al­ity; the phys­i­cal coun­ter­part is the time-space re­flec­tion of the spirit re­al­ity, the phys­i­cal reper­cus­sion of the cre­ative ac­tion of spirit-mind.

• mind always dominant over m.

42:12.15Mind uni­ver­sally dom­i­nates mat­ter, even as it is in turn re­spon­sive to the ul­ti­mate over­con­trol of spirit. And with mor­tal man, only that mind which freely sub­mits it­self to the spirit di­rec­tion can hope to sur­vive the mor­tal time-space ex­is­tence as an im­mor­tal child of the eter­nal spirit world of the Su­preme, the Ul­ti­mate, and the Ab­so­lute: the In­fi­nite.

• defined as › reflected shadow of spirit; skeleton of morontia

44:0.15All these ac­tiv­i­ties of the mor­ontia and spirit worlds are real. To spirit be­ings the spirit world is a re­al­ity. To us the ma­te­rial world is the more un­real. The higher forms of spir­its freely pass through or­di­nary mat­ter. High spir­its are re­ac­tive to noth­ing ma­te­rial ex­cept­ing cer­tain of the ba­sic en­er­gies. To ma­te­rial be­ings the spirit world is more or less un­real; to spirit be­ings the ma­te­rial world is al­most en­tirely un­real, be­ing merely a shadow of the sub­stance of spirit re­al­i­ties.

44:0.16I can­not, with ex­clu­sive spirit vi­sion, per­ceive the build­ing in which this nar­ra­tive is be­ing trans­lated and re­corded. A Di­vine Coun­selor from Uversa who chances to stand by my side per­ceives still less of these purely ma­te­rial cre­ations. We dis­cern how these ma­te­rial struc­tures ap­pear to you by view­ing a spirit coun­ter­part pre­sented to our minds by one of our at­tend­ing en­ergy trans­form­ers. This ma­te­rial build­ing is not ex­actly real to me, a spirit be­ing, but it is, of course, very real and very ser­vice­able to ma­te­rial mor­tals.

• modifications of matter › by Master Physical Controllers and Morontia Power Supervisors

48:1.3All of these worlds are ar­chi­tec­tural spheres, and they have just dou­ble the num­ber of el­e­ments of the evolved plan­ets. Such made-to-or­der worlds not only abound in the heavy met­als and crys­tals, hav­ing one hun­dred phys­i­cal el­e­ments, but like­wise have ex­actly one hun­dred forms of a unique en­ergy or­ga­ni­za­tion called mor­ontia ma­te­rial. The Mas­ter Phys­i­cal Con­trol­lers and the Mor­ontia Power Super­vi­sors are able so to mod­ify the rev­o­lu­tions of the pri­mary units of mat­ter and at the same time so to trans­form these as­so­ci­a­tions of en­ergy as to cre­ate this new sub­stance.

• modifications of matter › by Master Physical Controllers and Morontia Power Supervisors

48:2.22While the ba­sic mor­ontia forms of life and mat­ter are iden­ti­cal from the first man­sion world to the last uni­verse tran­si­tion sphere, there is a func­tional pro­gres­sion which grad­u­ally ex­tends from the ma­te­rial to the spir­i­tual. Your adap­ta­tion to this ba­si­cally uni­form but suc­ces­sively ad­vanc­ing and spir­i­tiz­ing cre­ation is ef­fected by this se­lec­tive re-key­ing. Such an ad­just­ment in the mech­a­nism of per­son­al­ity is tan­ta­mount to a new cre­ation, not­with­stand­ing that you re­tain the same mor­ontia form.

• defined as › what responds to material-gravity circuit of Paradise

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.

• defined as › time-space repercussions of Paradise Pattern and Universal Mind

56:10.18Phys­i­cal mat­ter is the time-space shadow of the Par­a­dise en­ergy-shin­ing of the ab­so­lute De­i­ties. Truth mean­ings are the mor­tal-in­tel­lect reper­cus­sions of the eter­nal word of De­ity—the time-space com­pre­hen­sion of su­preme con­cepts. The good­ness val­ues of di­vin­ity are the mer­ci­ful min­istries of the spirit per­son­al­i­ties of the Uni­ver­sal, the Eter­nal, and the In­fi­nite to the time-space fi­nite crea­tures of the evo­lu­tion­ary spheres.

• mind always dominant over m.

65:8.5In the cos­mic evo­lu­tion­ary lab­o­ra­to­ries mind is al­ways dom­i­nant over mat­ter, and spirit is ever cor­re­lated with mind. Fail­ure of these di­verse en­dow­ments to syn­chro­nize and co-or­di­nate may cause time de­lays, but if the in­di­vid­ual re­ally knows God and de­sires to find him and be­come like him, then sur­vival is as­sured re­gard­less of the hand­i­caps of time. Phys­i­cal sta­tus may hand­i­cap mind, and men­tal per­ver­sity may de­lay spir­i­tual at­tain­ment, but none of these ob­sta­cles can de­feat the whole-souled choice of will.

• subject to absolute-gravity of Paradise

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.

• defined as › time-space repercussions of Paradise Pattern and Universal Mind

130:4.2The source of uni­verse re­al­ity is the In­fi­nite. The ma­te­rial things of fi­nite cre­ation are the time-space reper­cus­sions of the Par­a­dise Pat­tern and the Uni­ver­sal Mind of the eter­nal God. Cau­sa­tion in the phys­i­cal world, self-con­scious­ness in the in­tel­lec­tual world, and pro­gress­ing self­hood in the spirit world—these re­al­i­ties, pro­jected on a uni­ver­sal scale, com­bined in eter­nal re­lat­ed­ness, and ex­pe­ri­enced with per­fec­tion of qual­ity and di­vin­ity of value—con­sti­tute the re­al­ity of the Su­preme. But in an ever-chang­ing uni­verse the Orig­i­nal Per­son­al­ity of cau­sa­tion, in­tel­li­gence, and spirit ex­pe­ri­ence is change­less, ab­so­lute. All things, even in an eter­nal uni­verse of lim­it­less val­ues and di­vine qual­i­ties, may, and of­ten­times do, change ex­cept the Ab­so­lutes and that which has at­tained the phys­i­cal sta­tus, in­tel­lec­tual em­brace, or spir­i­tual iden­tity which is ab­so­lute.

• defined as › slowed-down energy

133:5.10Re­al­ity of ma­te­rial ex­is­tence at­taches to un­rec­og­nized en­ergy as well as to vis­i­ble mat­ter. When the en­er­gies of the uni­verse are so slowed down that they ac­quire the req­ui­site de­gree of mo­tion, then, un­der fa­vor­able con­di­tions, these same en­er­gies be­come mass. And for­get not, the mind which can alone per­ceive the pres­ence of ap­par­ent re­al­i­ties is it­self also real. And the fun­da­men­tal cause of this uni­verse of en­ergy-mass, mind, and spirit, is eter­nal—it ex­ists and con­sists in the na­ture and re­ac­tions of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and his ab­so­lute co-or­di­nates.

• defined as › reflected shadow of spirit; skeleton of morontia

189:1.3Man­kind is slow to per­ceive that, in all that is per­sonal, mat­ter is the skele­ton of mor­ontia, and that both are the re­flected shadow of en­dur­ing spirit re­al­ity. How long be­fore you will re­gard time as the mov­ing im­age of eter­nity and space as the fleet­ing shadow of Par­a­dise re­al­i­ties?

• knows not truth

195:6.12Sci­ence may be phys­i­cal, but the mind of the truth-dis­cern­ing sci­en­tist is at once super­ma­te­rial. Mat­ter knows not truth, nei­ther can it love mercy nor de­light in spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties. Moral con­vic­tions based on spir­i­tual en­light­en­ment and rooted in hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence are just as real and cer­tain as math­e­mat­i­cal de­duc­tions based on phys­i­cal ob­ser­va­tions, but on an­other and higher level.