space

12:5.1Like space, time is a be­stowal of Par­a­dise, but not in the same sense, only in­di­rectly. Time comes by virtue of mo­tion and be­cause mind is in­her­ently aware of se­quen­tial­ity. From a prac­ti­cal view­point, mo­tion is es­sen­tial to time, but there is no uni­ver­sal time unit based on mo­tion ex­cept in so far as the Par­a­dise-Ha­vona stan­dard day is ar­bi­trar­ily so rec­og­nized. The to­tal­ity of space res­pi­ra­tion de­stroys its lo­cal value as a time source.

12:5.2Space is not in­fi­nite, even though it takes ori­gin from Par­a­dise; not ab­so­lute, for it is per­vaded by the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute. We do not know the ab­so­lute lim­its of space, but we do know that the ab­so­lute of time is eter­nity.

12:5.3Time and space are in­sep­a­ra­ble only in the time-space cre­ations, the seven super­uni­verses. Non­tem­po­ral space (space with­out time) the­o­ret­i­cally ex­ists, but the only truly non­tem­po­ral place is Par­a­dise area. Non­spa­tial time (time with­out space) ex­ists in mind of the Par­a­dise level of func­tion.

12:5.4The rel­a­tively mo­tion­less midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise and sep­a­rat­ing per­vaded from un­per­vaded space are the tran­si­tion zones from time to eter­nity, hence the ne­ces­sity of Par­a­dise pil­grims be­com­ing un­con­scious dur­ing this tran­sit when it is to cul­mi­nate in Par­a­dise cit­i­zen­ship. Time-con­scious vis­i­tors can go to Par­a­dise with­out thus sleep­ing, but they re­main crea­tures of time.

12:5.5Re­la­tion­ships to time do not ex­ist with­out mo­tion in space, but con­scious­ness of time does. Se­quen­tial­ity can con­sciou­size time even in the ab­sence of mo­tion. Man’s mind is less time-bound than space-bound be­cause of the in­her­ent na­ture of mind. Even dur­ing the days of the earth life in the flesh, though man’s mind is rigidly space-bound, the cre­ative hu­man imag­i­na­tion is com­par­a­tively time free. But time it­self is not ge­net­i­cally a qual­ity of mind.

12:5.6There are three dif­fer­ent lev­els of time cog­nizance:

12:5.71. Mind-per­ceived time—con­scious­ness of se­quence, mo­tion, and a sense of du­ra­tion.

12:5.82. Spirit-per­ceived time—in­sight into mo­tion God­ward and the aware­ness of the mo­tion of as­cent to lev­els of in­creas­ing di­vin­ity.

12:5.93. Per­son­al­ity cre­ates a unique time sense out of in­sight into Re­al­ity plus a con­scious­ness of pres­ence and an aware­ness of du­ra­tion.

12:5.10Un­spir­i­tual an­i­mals know only the past and live in the pres­ent. Spirit-in­dwelt man has pow­ers of pre­vi­sion (in­sight); he may vi­su­al­ize the fu­ture. Only for­ward-look­ing and pro­gres­sive at­ti­tudes are per­son­ally real. Static ethics and tra­di­tional moral­ity are just slightly super­an­i­mal. Nor is sto­icism a high or­der of self-re­al­iza­tion. Ethics and morals be­come truly hu­man when they are dy­namic and pro­gres­sive, alive with uni­verse re­al­ity.

12:5.11The hu­man per­son­al­ity is not merely a con­comi­tant of time-and-space events; the hu­man per­son­al­ity can also act as the cos­mic cause of such events.

11:8.8Space po­tency is not sub­ject to the in­ter­ac­tions of any form of grav­i­ta­tion. This pri­mal en­dow­ment of Par­a­dise is not an ac­tual level of re­al­ity, but it is an­ces­tral to all rel­a­tive func­tional non­spirit re­al­i­ties—all man­i­fes­ta­tions of force-en­ergy and the or­ga­ni­za­tion of power and mat­ter. Space po­tency is a term dif­fi­cult to de­fine. It does not mean that which is an­ces­tral to space; its mean­ing should con­vey the idea of the po­ten­cies and po­ten­tials ex­is­tent within space. It may be roughly con­ceived to in­clude all those ab­so­lute in­flu­ences and po­ten­tials which em­anate from Par­a­dise and con­sti­tute the space pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

12:3.6These four cir­cuits are not re­lated to the nether Par­a­dise force cen­ter; they are nei­ther force, en­ergy, nor power cir­cuits. They are ab­so­lute pres­ence cir­cuits and like God are in­de­pen­dent of time and space.

14:5.5Dur­ing your so­journ in Ha­vona as a pil­grim of as­cent, you will be al­lowed to visit freely among the worlds of the cir­cuit of your as­sign­ment. You will also be per­mit­ted to go back to the plan­ets of those cir­cuits you have pre­vi­ously tra­versed. And all this is pos­si­ble to those who so­journ on the cir­cles of Ha­vona with­out the ne­ces­sity of be­ing en­super­na­phimed. The pil­grims of time are able to equip them­selves to tra­verse “achieved” space but must de­pend on the or­dained tech­nique to ne­go­ti­ate “un­achieved” space; a pil­grim can­not leave Ha­vona nor go for­ward be­yond his as­signed cir­cuit with­out the aid of a trans­port super­na­phim.

49:6.19These are the mor­tals who fuse with their Ad­justers dur­ing mor­tal life, and such Ad­juster-fused per­son­al­i­ties tra­verse space freely be­fore be­ing clothed with mor­ontia forms. These fused souls go by di­rect Ad­juster tran­sit to the res­ur­rec­tion halls of the higher mor­ontia spheres, where they re­ceive their ini­tial mor­ontia in­vesti­ture just as do all other mor­tals ar­riv­ing from the evo­lu­tion­ary worlds.

14:1.1From the pe­riph­ery of Par­a­dise to the in­ner bor­ders of the seven super­uni­verses there are the fol­low­ing seven space con­di­tions and mo­tions:

14:1.21. The qui­es­cent midspace zones im­ping­ing on Par­a­dise.

14:1.32. The clock­wise pro­ces­sional of the three Par­a­dise and the seven Ha­vona cir­cuits.

14:1.43. The semiquiet space zone sep­a­rat­ing the Ha­vona cir­cuits from the dark grav­ity bod­ies of the cen­tral uni­verse.

14:1.54. The in­ner, coun­ter­clock­wise-mov­ing belt of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.65. The sec­ond unique space zone di­vid­ing the two space paths of the dark grav­ity bod­ies.

14:1.76. The outer belt of dark grav­ity bod­ies, re­volv­ing clock­wise around Par­a­dise.

106:9.2When fi­nite crea­tures at­tempt to con­ceive of in­fi­nite uni­fi­ca­tion on the fi­nal­ity lev­els of con­sum­mated eter­nity, they are face to face with in­tel­lect lim­i­ta­tions in­her­ent in their fi­nite ex­is­tences. Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence con­sti­tute bar­ri­ers to crea­ture con­cept; and yet, with­out time, apart from space, and ex­cept for ex­pe­ri­ence, no crea­ture could achieve even a lim­ited com­pre­hen­sion of uni­verse re­al­ity. With­out time sen­si­tiv­ity, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could pos­si­bly per­ceive the re­la­tions of se­quence. With­out space per­cep­tion, no crea­ture could fathom the re­la­tions of si­mul­tane­ity. With­out ex­pe­ri­ence, no evo­lu­tion­ary crea­ture could even ex­ist; only the Seven Ab­so­lutes of In­fin­ity re­ally tran­scend ex­pe­ri­ence, and even these may be ex­pe­ri­en­tial in cer­tain phases.

106:9.3Time, space, and ex­pe­ri­ence are man’s great­est aids to rel­a­tive re­al­ity per­cep­tion and yet his most formidable ob­sta­cles to com­plete re­al­ity per­cep­tion. Mor­tals and many other uni­verse crea­tures find it nec­es­sary to think of po­ten­tials as be­ing ac­tu­al­ized in space and evolv­ing to fruition in time, but this en­tire pro­cess is a time-space phe­nom­e­non which does not ac­tu­ally take place on Par­a­dise and in eter­nity. On the ab­so­lute level there is nei­ther time nor space; all po­ten­tials may be there per­ceived as ac­tu­als.

9:4.4In­fi­nite mind ig­nores time, ul­ti­mate mind tran­scends time, cos­mic mind is con­di­tioned by time. And so with space: The In­fi­nite Mind is in­de­pen­dent of space, but as de­scent is made from the in­fi­nite to the ad­ju­tant lev­els of mind, in­tel­lect must in­creas­ingly reckon with the fact and lim­i­ta­tions of space.

130:7.6There are seven dif­fer­ent con­cep­tions of space as it is con­di­tioned by time. Space is mea­sured by time, not time by space. The con­fu­sion of the sci­en­tist grows out of fail­ure to rec­og­nize the re­al­ity of space. Space is not merely an in­tel­lec­tual con­cept of the vari­a­tion in re­lat­ed­ness of uni­verse ob­jects. Space is not empty, and the only thing man knows which can even par­tially tran­scend space is mind. Mind can func­tion in­de­pen­dently of the con­cept of the space-re­lat­ed­ness of ma­te­rial ob­jects. Space is rel­a­tively and com­par­a­tively fi­nite to all be­ings of crea­ture sta­tus. The nearer con­scious­ness ap­proaches the aware­ness of seven cos­mic di­men­sions, the more does the con­cept of po­ten­tial space ap­proach ul­ti­macy. But the space po­ten­tial is truly ul­ti­mate only on the ab­so­lute level.

12:4.2The Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is func­tion­ally lim­ited to space, but we are not so sure about the re­la­tion of this Ab­so­lute to mo­tion. Is mo­tion in­her­ent therein? We do not know. We know that mo­tion is not in­her­ent in space; even the mo­tions of space are not in­nate. But we are not so sure about the re­la­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied to mo­tion. Who, or what, is re­ally re­spon­si­ble for the gi­gan­tic ac­tiv­i­ties of force-en­ergy trans­mu­ta­tions now in prog­ress out be­yond the bor­ders of the pres­ent seven super­uni­verses? Con­cern­ing the ori­gin of mo­tion we have the fol­low­ing opin­ions:

12:4.7Space is, from the hu­man view­point, noth­ing—neg­a­tive; it ex­ists only as re­lated to some­thing pos­i­tive and non­spa­tial. Space is, how­ever, real. It con­tains and con­di­tions mo­tion. It even moves. Space mo­tions may be roughly clas­si­fied as fol­lows:

12:4.81. Pri­mary mo­tion—space res­pi­ra­tion, the mo­tion of space it­self.

12:4.92. Sec­ondary mo­tion—the al­ter­nate di­rec­tional swings of the suc­ces­sive space lev­els.

12:4.103. Rel­a­tive mo­tions—rel­a­tive in the sense that they are not eval­u­ated with Par­a­dise as a base point. Pri­mary and sec­ondary mo­tions are ab­so­lute, mo­tion in re­la­tion to un­mov­ing Par­a­dise.

12:4.114. Com­pen­satory or cor­re­lat­ing move­ment de­signed to co-or­di­nate all other mo­tions.

• is not pattern
• neutralizes gravity; nonresponsive to gravity

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.

• neither absolute nor infinite

1:7.7This con­cept of in­di­vis­i­bil­ity in as­so­ci­a­tion with the con­cept of unity im­plies tran­scen­dence of both time and space by the Ul­ti­macy of De­ity; there­fore nei­ther space nor time can be ab­so­lute or in­fi­nite. The First Source and Cen­ter is that in­fin­ity who un­qual­i­fiedly tran­scends all mind, all mat­ter, and all spirit.

• dead vaults of s. astir upon creation of Havona

8:1.4The God of Ac­tion func­tions and the dead vaults of space are astir. One bil­lion per­fect spheres flash into ex­is­tence. Prior to this hy­po­thet­i­cal eter­nity mo­ment the space-en­er­gies in­her­ent in Par­a­dise are ex­is­tent and po­ten­tially op­er­a­tive, but they have no ac­tu­al­ity of be­ing; nei­ther can phys­i­cal grav­ity be mea­sured ex­cept by the re­ac­tion of ma­te­rial re­al­i­ties to its in­ces­sant pull. There is no ma­te­rial uni­verse at this (as­sumed) eter­nally dis­tant mo­ment, but the very in­stant that one bil­lion worlds ma­te­ri­al­ize, there is in ev­i­dence grav­ity suf­fi­cient and ad­e­quate to hold them in the ev­er­last­ing grasp of Par­a­dise.

• does not exist on, but relative to, Paradise

11:2.10It ap­pears to us that the First Source and Cen­ter has con­cen­trated all ab­so­lute po­ten­tial for cos­mic re­al­ity in Par­a­dise as a part of his tech­nique of self-lib­er­a­tion from in­fin­ity lim­i­ta­tions, as a means of mak­ing pos­si­ble subin­fi­nite, even time-space, cre­ation. But it does not fol­low that Par­a­dise is time-space lim­ited just be­cause the uni­verse of uni­verses dis­closes these qual­i­ties. Par­a­dise ex­ists with­out time and has no lo­ca­tion in space.

11:2.11Roughly: space seem­ingly orig­i­nates just be­low nether Par­a­dise; time just above up­per Par­a­dise. Time, as you un­der­stand it, is not a fea­ture of Par­a­dise ex­is­tence, though the cit­i­zens of the cen­tral Isle are fully con­scious of non­time se­quence of events. Mo­tion is not in­her­ent on Par­a­dise; it is vo­li­tional. But the con­cept of dis­tance, even ab­so­lute dis­tance, has very much mean­ing as it may be ap­plied to rel­a­tive lo­ca­tions on Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise is non­spa­tial; hence its ar­eas are ab­so­lute and there­fore ser­vice­able in many ways be­yond the con­cept of mor­tal mind.

• is not force, energy, or power
• womb of absoluta and other forms of matter and prematter

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.

• vertical cross section of total s. resembles Maltese cross centered on Paradise; hourglass

11:6.1We do not know the ac­tual mech­a­nism of space res­pi­ra­tion; we merely ob­serve that all space al­ter­nately con­tracts and ex­pands. This res­pi­ra­tion af­fects both the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space and the ver­ti­cal ex­ten­sions of un­per­vaded space which ex­ist in the vast space reser­voirs above and be­low Par­a­dise. In at­tempt­ing to imag­ine the vol­ume out­lines of these space reser­voirs, you might think of an hour­glass.

11:6.2As the uni­verses of the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space ex­pand, the reser­voirs of the ver­ti­cal ex­ten­sion of un­per­vaded space con­tract and vice versa. There is a con­flu­ence of per­vaded and un­per­vaded space just un­der­neath nether Par­a­dise. Both types of space there flow through the trans­mut­ing reg­u­la­tion chan­nels, where changes are wrought mak­ing per­vad­able space non­per­vad­able and vice versa in the con­trac­tion and ex­pan­sion cy­cles of the cos­mos.

• does not exist on, but relative to, Paradise

11:7.1Space does not ex­ist on any of the sur­faces of Par­a­dise. If one “looked” di­rectly up from the up­per sur­face of Par­a­dise, one would “see” noth­ing but un­per­vaded space go­ing out or com­ing in, just now com­ing in. Space does not touch Par­a­dise; only the qui­es­cent midspace zones come in con­tact with the cen­tral Isle.

• vertical cross section of total s. resembles Maltese cross centered on Paradise; hourglass

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.

• bestowal of Paradise
• extends unknown distance beyond master universe

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.

• neutralizes gravity; nonresponsive to gravity

11:8.3Space is non­re­spon­sive to grav­ity, but it acts as an equi­li­brant on grav­ity. With­out the space cush­ion, ex­plo­sive ac­tion would jerk sur­round­ing space bod­ies. Per­vaded space also ex­erts an anti­grav­ity in­flu­ence upon phys­i­cal or lin­ear grav­ity; space can ac­tu­ally neu­tral­ize such grav­ity ac­tion even though it can­not de­lay it. Ab­so­lute grav­ity is Par­a­dise grav­ity. Lo­cal or lin­ear grav­ity per­tains to the elec­tri­cal stage of en­ergy or mat­ter; it op­er­ates within the cen­tral, su­per-, and outer uni­verses, wher­ever suit­able ma­te­ri­al­iza­tion has taken place.

• light and electricity are not basic energies of

41:1.2One hun­dred Su­preme Power Cen­ters of the fourth or­der are per­ma­nently as­signed to our lo­cal uni­verse. These be­ings re­ceive the in­com­ing lines of power from the third-or­der cen­ters of Uversa and re­lay the down-stepped and mod­i­fied cir­cuits to the power cen­ters of our con­stel­la­tions and sys­tems. These power cen­ters, in as­so­ci­a­tion, func­tion to pro­duce the liv­ing sys­tem of con­trol and equal­iza­tion which op­er­ates to main­tain the bal­ance and dis­tri­bu­tion of oth­er­wise fluc­tu­at­ing and vari­able en­er­gies. Power cen­ters are not, how­ever, con­cerned with tran­sient and lo­cal en­ergy up­heavals, such as sun spots and sys­tem elec­tric dis­tur­bances; light and elec­tric­ity are not the ba­sic en­er­gies of space; they are sec­ondary and sub­sidiary man­i­fes­ta­tions.

• emptiest s. is 100 ultimatons per cubic inch

41:6.1In de­ci­pher­ing spec­tral phe­nom­ena, it should be re­mem­bered that space is not empty; that light, in travers­ing space, is some­times slightly mod­i­fied by the var­i­ous forms of en­ergy and mat­ter which cir­cu­late in all or­ga­nized space. Some of the lines in­di­cat­ing un­known mat­ter which ap­pear in the spec­tra of your sun are due to mod­i­fi­ca­tions of well-known el­e­ments which are float­ing through­out space in shat­tered form, the atomic ca­su­al­ties of the fierce en­coun­ters of the so­lar el­e­men­tal bat­tles. Space is per­vaded by these wan­der­ing dere­licts, es­pe­cially sodium and cal­cium.

• emptiest s. is 100 ultimatons per cubic inch
• filled with energy currents, power circuits, ultimatonic and electronic energies
• interstellar space does not attain absolute zero

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.

• converts energy into matter

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.

• emptiest s. is 100 ultimatons per cubic inch

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.

• interelectronic s. of atom not empty

42:8.2The in­ter­elec­tronic space of an atom is not empty. Through­out an atom this in­ter­elec­tronic space is ac­ti­vated by wave­like man­i­fes­ta­tions which are per­fectly syn­chro­nized with elec­tronic ve­loc­ity and ul­ti­ma­tonic rev­o­lu­tions. This force is not wholly dom­i­nated by your rec­og­nized laws of pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive at­trac­tion; its be­hav­ior is there­fore some­times un­pre­dictable. This un­named in­flu­ence seems to be a space-force re­ac­tion of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute.

• neutralizes gravity; nonresponsive to gravity

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.

• s. never comes forth from Paradise at any time; its derivation an eternity event

56:1.1The phys­i­cal or ma­te­rial cre­ation is not in­fi­nite, but it is per­fectly co-or­di­nated. There are force, en­ergy, and power, but they are all one in ori­gin. The seven super­uni­verses are seem­ingly dual; the cen­tral uni­verse, tri­une; but Par­a­dise is of sin­gle con­sti­tu­tion. And Par­a­dise is the ac­tual source of all ma­te­rial uni­verses—past, pres­ent, and fu­ture. But this cos­mic deriva­tion is an eter­nity event; at no time—past, pres­ent, or fu­ture—does ei­ther space or the ma­te­rial cos­mos come forth from the nu­clear Isle of Light. As the cos­mic source, Par­a­dise func­tions prior to space and be­fore time; hence would its deriva­tions seem to be or­phaned in time and space did they not emerge through the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute, their ul­ti­mate re­pos­i­tory in space and their re­vealer and reg­u­la­tor in time.

• indissolubly linked to time, except on Paradise

65:8.1Time and space are in­dis­sol­ubly linked; there is an in­nate as­so­ci­a­tion. The de­lays of time are in­ev­i­ta­ble in the pres­ence of cer­tain space con­di­tions.

• does not exist on, but relative to, Paradise

105:3.43. The Par­a­dise Source and Cen­ter. Sec­ond non­de­ity pat­tern, the eter­nal Isle of Par­a­dise; the ba­sis for the re­al­iza­tion-rev­e­la­tion of “I AM force” and the foun­da­tion for the es­tab­lish­ment of grav­ity con­trol through­out the uni­verses. Re­gard­ing all ac­tu­al­ized, non­spir­i­tual, im­per­sonal, and non­vo­li­tional re­al­ity, Par­a­dise is the ab­so­lute of pat­terns. Just as spirit en­ergy is re­lated to the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther through the ab­so­lute per­son­al­ity of the Mother-Son, so is all cos­mic en­ergy grasped in the grav­ity con­trol of the First Source and Cen­ter through the ab­so­lute pat­tern of the Par­a­dise Isle. Par­a­dise is not in space; space ex­ists rel­a­tive to Par­a­dise, and the chronic­ity of mo­tion is de­ter­mined through Par­a­dise re­la­tion­ship. The eter­nal Isle is ab­so­lutely at rest; all other or­ga­nized and or­ga­niz­ing en­ergy is in eter­nal mo­tion; in all space, only the pres­ence of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute is qui­es­cent, and the Un­qual­i­fied is co-or­di­nate with Par­a­dise. Par­a­dise ex­ists at the fo­cus of space, the Un­qual­i­fied per­vades it, and all rel­a­tive ex­is­tence has its be­ing within this do­main.

• transcendental reality

105:7.1410. Space.

• condition within relative absoluteness of midspace

106:7.7To fi­nite crea­tures of the grand uni­verse the con­cept of the mas­ter uni­verse seems to be well-nigh in­fi­nite, but doubt­less the ab­so­nite ar­chi­tects thereof per­ceive its re­lat­ed­ness to fu­ture and unimag­ined de­vel­op­ments within the un­end­ing I AM. Even space it­self is but an ul­ti­mate con­di­tion, a con­di­tion of qual­i­fi­ca­tion within the rel­a­tive ab­so­lute­ness of the quiet zones of midspace.

• system of associated points; perceived by synthesis

118:3.1Only by ubiq­uity could De­ity unify time-space man­i­fes­ta­tions to the fi­nite con­cep­tion, for time is a suc­ces­sion of in­stants while space is a sys­tem of as­so­ci­ated points. You do, af­ter all, per­ceive time by anal­y­sis and space by syn­the­sis. You co-or­di­nate and as­so­ciate these two dis­sim­i­lar con­cep­tions by the in­te­grat­ing in­sight of per­son­al­ity. Of all the an­i­mal world only man pos­sesses this time-space per­cep­ti­bil­ity. To an an­i­mal, mo­tion has a mean­ing, but mo­tion ex­hibits value only to a crea­ture of per­son­al­ity sta­tus.

• nearest of all nonabsolute things to being absolute
• property of all material bodies

118:3.5Space comes the near­est of all non­ab­so­lute things to be­ing ab­so­lute. Space is ap­par­ently ab­so­lutely ul­ti­mate. The real dif­fi­culty we have in un­der­stand­ing space on the ma­te­rial level is due to the fact that, while ma­te­rial bod­ies ex­ist in space, space also ex­ists in these same ma­te­rial bod­ies. While there is much about space that is ab­so­lute, that does not mean that space is ab­so­lute.

118:3.6It may help to an un­der­stand­ing of space re­la­tion­ships if you would con­jec­ture that, rel­a­tively speak­ing, space is af­ter all a prop­erty of all ma­te­rial bod­ies. Hence, when a body moves through space, it also takes all its prop­er­ties with it, even the space which is in and of such a mov­ing body.

3:1.6The om­nipres­ence of God is in re­al­ity a part of his in­fi­nite na­ture; space con­sti­tutes no bar­rier to De­ity. God is, in per­fec­tion and with­out lim­i­ta­tion, dis­cernibly pres­ent only on Par­a­dise and in the cen­tral uni­verse. He is not thus ob­serv­ably pres­ent in the cre­ations en­cir­cling Ha­vona, for God has lim­ited his di­rect and ac­tual pres­ence in rec­og­ni­tion of the sov­er­eignty and the di­vine pre­rog­a­tives of the co-or­di­nate cre­ators and rulers of the uni­verses of time and space. Hence must the con­cept of the di­vine pres­ence al­low for a wide range of both mode and chan­nel of man­i­fes­ta­tion em­brac­ing the pres­ence cir­cuits of the Eter­nal Son, the In­fi­nite Spirit, and the Isle of Par­a­dise. Nor is it al­ways pos­si­ble to dis­tin­guish be­tween the pres­ence of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther and the ac­tions of his eter­nal co-or­di­nates and agen­cies, so per­fectly do they ful­fill all the in­fi­nite re­quire­ments of his un­chang­ing pur­pose. But not so with the per­son­al­ity cir­cuit and the Ad­justers; here God acts uniquely, di­rectly, and ex­clu­sively.

34:3.2The In­fi­nite Spirit per­vades all space and in­dwells the cir­cle of eter­nity. Still, in their per­sonal con­tact with the chil­dren of time, the per­son­al­i­ties of the In­fi­nite Spirit must of­ten reckon with tem­po­ral el­e­ments, though not so much with space. Many mind min­istries ig­nore space but suf­fer a time lag in ef­fect­ing co-or­di­na­tion of di­verse lev­els of uni­verse re­al­ity. A Soli­tary Mes­sen­ger is vir­tu­ally in­de­pen­dent of space ex­cept that time is ac­tu­ally re­quired in trav­el­ing from one lo­ca­tion to an­other; and there are sim­i­lar en­ti­ties un­known to you.

• now in expansion phase

11:6.4The cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion ex­tend in each phase for a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years. Dur­ing one phase the uni­verses ex­pand; dur­ing the next they con­tract. Per­vaded space is now ap­proach­ing the mid-point of the ex­pand­ing phase, while un­per­vaded space nears the mid-point of the con­tract­ing phase, and we are in­formed that the out­er­most lim­its of both space ex­ten­sions are, the­o­ret­i­cally, now ap­prox­i­mately equidis­tant from Par­a­dise. The un­per­vaded-space reser­voirs now ex­tend ver­ti­cally above up­per Par­a­dise and be­low nether Par­a­dise just as far as the per­vaded space of the uni­verse ex­tends hor­i­zon­tally out­ward from pe­riph­eral Par­a­dise to and even be­yond the fourth outer space level.

• 6 space levels constitute major divisions of

12:1.2The suc­ces­sive space lev­els of the mas­ter uni­verse con­sti­tute the ma­jor di­vi­sions of per­vaded space—to­tal cre­ation, or­ga­nized and par­tially in­hab­ited or yet to be or­ga­nized and in­hab­ited. If the mas­ter uni­verse were not a se­ries of el­lip­ti­cal space lev­els of less­ened re­sis­tance to mo­tion, al­ter­nat­ing with zones of rel­a­tive qui­es­cence, we con­ceive that some of the cos­mic en­er­gies would be ob­served to shoot off on an in­fi­nite range, off on a straight-line path into track­less space; but we never find force, en­ergy, or mat­ter thus be­hav­ing; ever they whirl, al­ways swing­ing on­ward in the tracks of the great space cir­cuits.

12:1.3Pro­ceed­ing out­ward from Par­a­dise through the hor­i­zon­tal ex­ten­sion of per­vaded space, the mas­ter uni­verse is ex­is­tent in six con­cen­tric el­lipses, the space lev­els en­cir­cling the cen­tral Isle:

12:1.41. The Cen­tral Uni­verse—Ha­vona.

12:1.52. The Seven Super­uni­verses.

12:1.63. The First Outer Space Level.

12:1.74. The Sec­ond Outer Space Level.

12:1.85. The Third Outer Space Level.

12:1.96. The Fourth and Out­er­most Space Level.

• ancestral space potency of Unqualified Absolute (absoluta) fills

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.

17:3.10Dur­ing the pres­ent uni­verse age the space range of the ex­tra-Par­a­dise re­flec­tiv­ity ser­vice seems to be lim­ited by the pe­riph­ery of the seven super­uni­verses. Oth­er­wise, the func­tion of this ser­vice seems to be in­de­pen­dent of time and space. It ap­pears to be in­de­pen­dent of all known sub­ab­so­lute uni­verse cir­cuits.

• extends throughout pervaded s.
• pulsations of nether Paradise synchronized with s. respiration

11:5.8All forms of force and all phases of en­ergy seem to be en­cir­cuited; they cir­cu­late through­out the uni­verses and re­turn by def­i­nite routes. But with the em­a­na­tions of the ac­ti­vated zone of the Un­qual­i­fied Ab­so­lute there ap­pears to be ei­ther an out­go­ing or an in­com­ing—never both si­mul­ta­ne­ously. This outer zone pul­sates in age­long cy­cles of gi­gan­tic pro­por­tions. For a lit­tle more than one bil­lion Uran­tia years the space-force of this cen­ter is out­go­ing; then for a sim­i­lar length of time it will be in­com­ing. And the space-force man­i­fes­ta­tions of this cen­ter are uni­ver­sal; they ex­tend through­out all per­vad­able space.

11:6.3“Un­per­vaded” space means: un­per­vaded by those forces, en­er­gies, pow­ers, and pres­ences known to ex­ist in per­vaded space. We do not know whether ver­ti­cal (reser­voir) space is des­tined al­ways to func­tion as the equipoise of hor­i­zon­tal (uni­verse) space; we do not know whether there is a cre­ative in­tent con­cern­ing un­per­vaded space; we re­ally know very lit­tle about the space reser­voirs, merely that they ex­ist, and that they seem to coun­ter­bal­ance the space-ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cles of the uni­verse of uni­verses.

11:6.5For a bil­lion years of Uran­tia time the space reser­voirs con­tract while the mas­ter uni­verse and the force ac­tiv­i­ties of all hor­i­zon­tal space ex­pand. It thus re­quires a lit­tle over two bil­lion Uran­tia years to com­plete the en­tire ex­pan­sion-con­trac­tion cy­cle.

• 2 billion year cycle
• accounts for impression of expanding universe

12:4.12The pres­ent re­la­tion­ship of your sun and its as­so­ci­ated plan­ets, while dis­clos­ing many rel­a­tive and ab­so­lute mo­tions in space, tends to con­vey the im­pres­sion to as­tro­nomic ob­servers that you are com­par­a­tively sta­tion­ary in space, and that the sur­round­ing starry clus­ters and streams are en­gaged in out­ward flight at ever-in­creas­ing ve­loc­i­ties as your cal­cu­la­tions pro­ceed out­ward in space. But such is not the case. You fail to rec­og­nize the pres­ent out­ward and uni­form ex­pan­sion of the phys­i­cal cre­ations of all per­vaded space. Your own lo­cal cre­ation (Neb­a­don) par­tic­i­pates in this move­ment of uni­ver­sal out­ward ex­pan­sion. The en­tire seven super­uni­verses par­tic­i­pate in the two-bil­lion-year cy­cles of space res­pi­ra­tion along with the outer re­gions of the mas­ter uni­verse.

• is s. work, not power-energy work

12:4.13When the uni­verses ex­pand and con­tract, the ma­te­rial masses in per­vaded space al­ter­nately move against and with the pull of Par­a­dise grav­ity. The work that is done in mov­ing the ma­te­rial en­ergy mass of cre­ation is space work but not power-en­ergy work.

• is not uncharted plunge into new s.

15:1.1Within the lim­ited range of the rec­ords, ob­ser­va­tions, and mem­o­ries of the gen­er­a­tions of a mil­lion or a bil­lion of your short years, to all prac­ti­cal in­tents and pur­poses, Uran­tia and the uni­verse to which it be­longs are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing the ad­ven­ture of one long and un­charted plunge into new space; but ac­cord­ing to the rec­ords of Uversa, in ac­cor­dance with older ob­ser­va­tions, in har­mony with the more ex­ten­sive ex­pe­ri­ence and cal­cu­la­tions of our or­der, and as a re­sult of con­clu­sions based on these and other find­ings, we know that the uni­verses are en­gaged in an or­derly, well-un­der­stood, and per­fectly con­trolled pro­ces­sional, swing­ing in ma­jes­tic grandeur around the First Great Source and Cen­ter and his res­i­den­tial uni­verse.

15:1.2We have long since dis­cov­ered that the seven super­uni­verses tra­verse a great el­lipse, a gi­gan­tic and elon­gated cir­cle. Your so­lar sys­tem and other worlds of time are not plung­ing head­long, with­out chart and com­pass, into un­mapped space. The lo­cal uni­verse to which your sys­tem be­longs is pur­su­ing a def­i­nite and well-un­der­stood coun­ter­clock­wise course around the vast swing that en­cir­cles the cen­tral uni­verse. This cos­mic path is well charted and is just as thor­oughly known to the super­uni­verse star ob­servers as the or­bits of the plan­ets con­sti­tut­ing your so­lar sys­tem are known to Uran­tia as­tron­o­mers.

15:1.3Uran­tia is sit­u­ated in a lo­cal uni­verse and a super­uni­verse not fully or­ga­nized, and your lo­cal uni­verse is in im­me­di­ate prox­im­ity to nu­mer­ous par­tially com­pleted phys­i­cal cre­ations. You be­long to one of the rel­a­tively re­cent uni­verses. But you are not, to­day, plung­ing on wildly into un­charted space nor swing­ing out blindly into un­known re­gions. You are fol­low­ing the or­derly and pre­de­ter­mined path of the super­uni­verse space level. You are now pass­ing through the very same space that your plan­e­tary sys­tem, or its pre­de­ces­sors, tra­versed ages ago; and some day in the re­mote fu­ture your sys­tem, or its suc­ces­sors, will again tra­verse the iden­ti­cal space through which you are now so swiftly plung­ing.

42:11.4Mo­tion and uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion are twin facets of the im­per­sonal time-space mech­a­nism of the uni­verse of uni­verses. The lev­els of grav­ity re­sponse for spirit, mind, and mat­ter are quite in­de­pen­dent of time, but only true spirit lev­els of re­al­ity are in­de­pen­dent of space (non­spa­tial). The higher mind lev­els of the uni­verse—the spirit-mind lev­els—may also be non­spa­tial, but the lev­els of ma­te­rial mind, such as hu­man mind, are re­spon­sive to the in­ter­ac­tions of uni­verse grav­i­ta­tion, los­ing this re­sponse only in pro­por­tion to spirit iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. Spirit-re­al­ity lev­els are rec­og­nized by their spirit con­tent, and spir­i­tu­al­ity in time and space is mea­sured in­versely to the lin­ear-grav­ity re­sponse.

42:5.42. Ul­ti­ma­tonic rays. The as­sem­bly of en­ergy into the minute spheres of the ul­ti­ma­tons oc­ca­sions vi­bra­tions in the con­tent of space which are dis­cern­i­ble and mea­sur­able. And long be­fore physi­cists ever dis­cover the ul­ti­ma­ton, they will un­doubt­edly de­tect the phe­nom­ena of these rays as they shower in upon Uran­tia. These short and pow­er­ful rays rep­re­sent the ini­tial ac­tiv­ity of the ul­ti­ma­tons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer to­wards the elec­tronic or­ga­ni­za­tion of mat­ter. As the ul­ti­ma­tons ag­gre­gate into elec­trons, con­den­sa­tion oc­curs with a con­se­quent stor­age of en­ergy.

11:7.2Par­a­dise is the ac­tu­ally mo­tion­less nu­cleus of the rel­a­tively qui­es­cent zones ex­ist­ing be­tween per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Ge­o­graph­i­cally these zones ap­pear to be a rel­a­tive ex­ten­sion of Par­a­dise, but there prob­a­bly is some mo­tion in them. We know very lit­tle about them, but we ob­serve that these zones of less­ened space mo­tion sep­a­rate per­vaded and un­per­vaded space. Sim­i­lar zones once ex­isted be­tween the lev­els of per­vaded space, but these are now less qui­es­cent.

• no absoluta in unpervaded s.

12:8.2The be­stowal of cos­mic force, the do­main of cos­mic grav­ity, is the func­tion of the Isle of Par­a­dise. All orig­i­nal force-en­ergy pro­ceeds from Par­a­dise, and the mat­ter for the mak­ing of un­told uni­verses now cir­cu­lates through­out the mas­ter uni­verse in the form of a super­grav­ity pres­ence which con­sti­tutes the force-charge of per­vaded 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.