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11:5.43. Oc­cu­py­ing the outer mar­gins of the un­der sur­face is a re­gion hav­ing mainly to do with space po­tency and force-en­ergy. The ac­tiv­i­ties of this vast el­lip­ti­cal force cen­ter are not iden­ti­fi­able with the known func­tions of any tri­unity, but the pri­mor­dial force-charge of space ap­pears to be fo­cal­ized in this area. This cen­ter con­sists of three con­cen­tric el­lip­ti­cal zones: The in­ner­most is the fo­cal point of the force-en­ergy ac­tiv­i­ties of Par­a­dise it­self; the out­er­most may pos­si­bly be iden­ti­fied with the func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, but we are not cer­tain con­cern­ing the space func­tions of the mid-zone.

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.

12:2.4The Uversa star stu­dents ob­serve that the grand uni­verse is sur­rounded by the an­ces­tors of a se­ries of starry and plan­e­tary clus­ters which com­pletely en­cir­cle the pres­ent in­hab­ited cre­ation as con­cen­tric rings of outer uni­verses upon uni­verses. The physi­cists of Uversa cal­cu­late that the en­ergy and mat­ter of these outer and un­charted re­gions al­ready equal many times the to­tal ma­te­rial mass and en­ergy charge em­braced in all seven super­uni­verses. We are in­formed that the meta­mor­pho­sis of cos­mic force in these outer space lev­els is a func­tion of the Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers. We also know that these forces are an­ces­tral to those phys­i­cal en­er­gies which at pres­ent ac­ti­vate the grand uni­verse. The Or­von­ton power di­rec­tors, how­ever, have noth­ing to do with these far-dis­tant realms, nei­ther are the en­ergy move­ments therein dis­cernibly con­nected with the power cir­cuits of the or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited cre­ations.

12:6.6All phases of pri­mor­dial force, nas­cent spirit, and other non­per­sonal ul­ti­mates ap­pear to re­act in ac­cor­dance with cer­tain rel­a­tively sta­ble but un­known laws and are char­ac­ter­ized by a lat­i­tude of per­for­mance and an elas­tic­ity of re­sponse which are of­ten dis­con­cert­ing when en­coun­tered in the phe­nom­ena of a cir­cum­scribed and iso­lated sit­u­a­tion. What is the ex­pla­na­tion of this un­pre­dictable free­dom of re­ac­tion dis­closed by these emerg­ing uni­verse ac­tu­al­i­ties? These un­known, un­fath­omable un­pre­dicta­bles—whether per­tain­ing to the be­hav­ior of a pri­mor­dial unit of force, the re­ac­tion of an uniden­ti­fied level of mind, or the phe­nom­e­non of a vast pre­uni­verse in the mak­ing in the do­mains of outer space—prob­a­bly dis­close the ac­tiv­i­ties of the Ul­ti­mate and the pres­ence-per­for­mances of the Ab­so­lutes, which an­te­date the func­tion of all uni­verse Cre­ators.

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.

15:4.3 · one paragraph not cited here ·

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.

29:5.4These two mighty or­ders of pri­mor­dial-force ma­nip­u­la­tors work ex­clu­sively un­der the super­vi­sion of the Ar­chi­tects of the Mas­ter Uni­verse, and at the pres­ent time they do not func­tion ex­ten­sively within the bound­aries of the grand uni­verse.

29:5.5Pri­mary Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers are the ma­nip­u­la­tors of the pri­mor­dial or ba­sic space-forces of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute; they are neb­u­lae cre­ators. They are the liv­ing in­sti­ga­tors of the en­ergy cy­clones of space and the early or­ga­niz­ers and di­rec­tion­iz­ers of these gi­gan­tic man­i­fes­ta­tions. These force or­ga­niz­ers trans­mute pri­mor­dial force (pre-en­ergy not re­spon­sive to di­rect Par­a­dise grav­ity) into pri­mary or puis­sant en­ergy, en­ergy trans­mut­ing from the ex­clu­sive grasp of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute to the grav­ity grasp of the Isle of Par­a­dise. They are there­upon suc­ceeded by the as­so­ciate force or­ga­niz­ers, who con­tinue the pro­cess of en­ergy trans­mu­ta­tion from the pri­mary through the sec­ondary or grav­ity-en­ergy stage.

42:0.1The foun­da­tion of the uni­verse is ma­te­rial in the sense that en­ergy is the ba­sis of all ex­is­tence, and pure en­ergy is con­trolled by the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. Force, en­ergy, is the one thing which stands as an ev­er­last­ing mon­u­ment demon­strat­ing and prov­ing the ex­is­tence and pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. This vast stream of en­ergy pro­ceed­ing from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences has never lapsed, never failed; there has never been a break in the in­fi­nite up­hold­ing.

42:0.2The ma­nip­u­la­tion of uni­verse en­ergy is ever in ac­cor­dance with the per­sonal will and the all-wise man­dates of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther. This per­sonal con­trol of man­i­fested power and cir­cu­lat­ing en­ergy is mod­i­fied by the co-or­di­nate acts and de­ci­sions of the Eter­nal Son, as well as by the united pur­poses of the Son and the Fa­ther ex­e­cuted by the Con­joint Ac­tor. These di­vine be­ings act per­son­ally and as in­di­vid­u­als; they also func­tion in the per­sons and pow­ers of an al­most un­lim­ited num­ber of sub­or­di­nates, each var­i­ously ex­pres­sive of the eter­nal and di­vine pur­pose in the uni­verse of uni­verses. But these func­tional and pro­vi­sional mod­i­fi­ca­tions or trans­mu­ta­tions of di­vine power in no way lessen the truth of the state­ment that all force-en­ergy is un­der the ul­ti­mate con­trol of a per­sonal God res­i­dent at the cen­ter of all things.

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.

42:1.6En­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, fash­ioned af­ter the di­vine or­der. En­ergy—pure en­ergy—par­takes of the na­ture of the di­vine or­ga­ni­za­tion; it is fash­ioned af­ter the simil­i­tude of the three Gods em­braced in one, as they func­tion at the head­quar­ters of the uni­verse of uni­verses. And all force is cir­cuited in Par­a­dise, comes from the Par­a­dise Pres­ences and re­turns thereto, and is in essence a man­i­fes­ta­tion of the un­caused Cause—the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; and with­out the Fa­ther would not any­thing ex­ist that does ex­ist.

42:2.72. Pri­mor­dial force. This rep­re­sents the first ba­sic change in space po­tency and may be one of the nether Par­a­dise func­tions of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We know that the space pres­ence go­ing out from nether Par­a­dise is mod­i­fied in some man­ner from that which is in­com­ing. But re­gard­less of any such pos­si­ble re­la­tion­ships, the openly rec­og­nized trans­mu­ta­tion of space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force is the pri­mary dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing func­tion of the ten­sion-pres­ence of the liv­ing Par­a­dise force or­ga­niz­ers.

42:2.8Pas­sive and po­ten­tial force be­comes ac­tive and pri­mor­dial in re­sponse to the re­sis­tance af­forded by the space pres­ence of the Pri­mary Even­tu­ated Mas­ter Force Or­ga­niz­ers. Force is now emerg­ing from the ex­clu­sive do­main of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute into the realms of mul­ti­ple re­sponse—re­sponse to cer­tain pri­mal mo­tions ini­ti­ated by the God of Ac­tion and there­upon to cer­tain com­pen­sat­ing mo­tions em­a­nat­ing from the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. Pri­mor­dial force is seem­ingly re­ac­tive to tran­scen­den­tal cau­sa­tion in pro­por­tion to ab­so­lute­ness.

42:2.9Pri­mor­dial force is some­times spo­ken of as pure en­ergy; on Uversa we re­fer to it as SEG­RE­GATA.

42:2.103. Emer­gent en­er­gies. The pas­sive pres­ence of the pri­mary force or­ga­niz­ers is suf­fi­cient to trans­form space po­tency into pri­mor­dial force, and it is upon such an ac­ti­vated space field that these same force or­ga­niz­ers be­gin their ini­tial and ac­tive op­er­a­tions. Pri­mor­dial force is des­tined to pass through two dis­tinct phases of trans­mu­ta­tion in the realms of en­ergy man­i­fes­ta­tion be­fore ap­pear­ing as uni­verse power. These two lev­els of emerg­ing en­ergy are:

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.

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.

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.

42:11.1In the eval­u­a­tion and rec­og­ni­tion of mind it should be re­mem­bered that the uni­verse is nei­ther me­chan­i­cal nor mag­i­cal; it is a cre­ation of mind and a mech­a­nism of law. But while in prac­ti­cal ap­pli­ca­tion the laws of na­ture op­er­ate in what seems to be the dual realms of the phys­i­cal and the spir­i­tual, in re­al­ity they are one. The First Source and Cen­ter is the pri­mal cause of all ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion and at the same time the first and fi­nal Fa­ther of all spir­its. The Par­a­dise Fa­ther ap­pears per­son­ally in the ex­tra-Ha­vona uni­verses only as pure en­ergy and pure spirit—as the Thought Ad­justers and other sim­i­lar frag­men­ta­tions.

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.

56:1.4Pure en­ergy is the an­ces­tor of all rel­a­tive, non­spirit func­tional re­al­i­ties, while pure spirit is the po­ten­tial of the di­vine and di­rec­tive over­con­trol of all ba­sic en­ergy sys­tems. And these re­al­i­ties, so di­verse as man­i­fested through­out space and as ob­served in the mo­tions of time, are both cen­tered in the per­son of the Par­a­dise Fa­ther. In him they are one—must be uni­fied—be­cause God is one. The Fa­ther’s per­son­al­ity is ab­so­lutely uni­fied.

56:9.1The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute and the De­ity Ab­so­lute are uni­fied in the Uni­ver­sal Ab­so­lute. The Ab­so­lutes are co-or­di­nated in the Ul­ti­mate, con­di­tioned in the Su­preme, and time-space mod­i­fied in God the Sev­en­fold. On subin­fi­nite lev­els there are three Ab­so­lutes, but in in­fin­ity they ap­pear to be one. On Par­a­dise there are three per­son­al­iza­tions of De­ity, but in the Trin­ity they are one.

56:9.2The ma­jor philo­sophic propo­si­tion of the mas­ter uni­verse is this: Did the Ab­so­lute (the three Ab­so­lutes as one in in­fin­ity) ex­ist be­fore the Trin­ity? and is the Ab­so­lute an­ces­tral to the Trin­ity? or is the Trin­ity an­te­ced­ent to the Ab­so­lute?

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See also energy; ether

Cited alongside: Master Force Organizers, absoluta, energy, Universe Power Directors, matter, Universal Father, Unqualified Absolute, gravity