monota

• living nonspirit energy of Paradise

42:2.197. Monota. En­ergy is close of kin to di­vin­ity when it is Par­a­dise en­ergy. We in­cline to the be­lief that monota is the liv­ing, non­spirit en­ergy of Par­a­dise—an eter­nity coun­ter­part of the liv­ing, spirit en­ergy of the Orig­i­nal Son—hence the non­spir­i­tual en­ergy sys­tem of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

• reveals nonspiritual realities of First Source; absolute

42:10.1The end­less sweep of rel­a­tive cos­mic re­al­ity, from the ab­so­lute­ness of Par­a­dise monota to the ab­so­lute­ness of space po­tency, is sug­ges­tive of cer­tain evo­lu­tions of re­la­tion­ship in the non­spir­i­tual re­al­i­ties of the First Source and Cen­ter—those re­al­i­ties which are con­cealed in space po­tency, re­vealed in monota, and pro­vi­sion­ally dis­closed on in­ter­ven­ing cos­mic lev­els. This eter­nal cy­cle of en­ergy, be­ing cir­cuited in the Fa­ther of uni­verses, is ab­so­lute and, be­ing ab­so­lute, is ex­pan­sile in nei­ther fact nor value; nev­er­the­less the Pri­mal Fa­ther is even now—as al­ways—self-re­al­iz­ing of an ever-ex­pand­ing arena of time-space, and of time-space-tran­scended, mean­ings, an arena of chang­ing re­la­tion­ships wherein en­ergy-mat­ter is be­ing pro­gres­sively sub­jected to the over­con­trol of liv­ing and di­vine spirit through the ex­pe­ri­en­tial striv­ing of liv­ing and per­sonal mind.

• indistinguishable from spirit except by name

116:6.7On Par­a­dise, monota and spirit are as one—in­dis­tin­guish­able ex­cept by name. In Ha­vona, mat­ter and spirit, while dis­tin­guish­ably dif­fer­ent, are at the same time in­nately har­mo­nious. In the seven super­uni­verses, how­ever, there is great di­ver­gence; there is a wide gulf be­tween cos­mic en­ergy and di­vine spirit; there­fore is there a greater ex­pe­ri­en­tial po­ten­tial for mind ac­tion in har­mo­niz­ing and even­tu­ally uni­fy­ing phys­i­cal pat­tern with spir­i­tual pur­poses. In the time-evolv­ing uni­verses of space there is greater di­vin­ity at­ten­u­a­tion, more dif­fi­cult prob­lems to be solved, and larger op­por­tu­nity to ac­quire ex­pe­ri­ence in their so­lu­tion. And this en­tire super­uni­verse sit­u­a­tion brings into be­ing a larger arena of evo­lu­tion­ary ex­is­tence in which the pos­si­bil­ity of cos­mic ex­pe­ri­ence is made avail­able alike to crea­ture and Cre­ator—even to Su­preme De­ity.