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The 5th Epochal Revelation
-The Urantia Papers
PAPER 42
ENERGY -- MIND AND MATTER
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THE 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.
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The 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.
1. PARADISE FORCES AND ENERGIES
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The foundation of the universe is material, but the
essence of life is spirit. The Father of spirits is also
the ancestor of universes; the eternal Father of the
Original Son is also the eternity-source of the original
pattern, the Isle of Paradise.
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Matter -- 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.
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There is innate in matter and present in universal space
a form of energy not known on Urantia. When this
discovery is finally made, then will physicists feel
that they have solved, almost at least, the mystery of
matter. And so will they have approached one step nearer
the Creator; so will they have mastered one more phase
of the divine technique; but in no sense will they have
found God, neither will they have established the
existence of matter or the operation of natural laws
apart from the cosmic technique of Paradise and the
motivating purpose of the Universal Father.
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Subsequent to even still greater progress and further
discoveries, after Urantia has advanced immeasurably in
comparison with present knowledge, though you should
gain control of the energy revolutions of the electrical
units of matter to the extent of modifying their
physical manifestations -- even after all such possible
progress, forever will scientists be powerless to create
one atom of matter or to originate one flash of energy
or ever to add to matter that which we call life.
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The 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.
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Energy 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.
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Force derived from self-existent Deity is in itself ever
existent. Force-energy is imperishable, indestructible;
these manifestations of the Infinite may be subject to
unlimited transmutation, endless transformation, and
eternal metamorphosis; but in no sense or degree, not
even to the slightest imaginable extent, could they or
ever shall they suffer extinction. But energy, though
springing from the Infinite, is not infinitely manifest;
there are outer limits to the presently conceived master
universe.
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Energy is eternal but not infinite; it ever responds to
the all-embracing grasp of Infinity. Forever force and
energy go on; having gone out from Paradise, they must
return thereto, even if age upon age be required for the
completion of the ordained circuit. That which is of
Paradise Deity origin can have only a Paradise
destination or a Deity destiny.
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And all this confirms our belief in a circular, somewhat
limited, but orderly and far-flung universe of
universes. If this were not true, then evidence of
energy depletion at some point would sooner or later
appear. All laws, organizations, administration, and the
testimony of universe explorers -- everything points to
the existence of an infinite God but, as yet, a finite
universe, a circularity of endless existence, well-nigh
limitless but, nevertheless, finite in contrast with
infinity.
2. UNIVERSAL NONSPIRITUAL ENERGY SYSTEMS (PHYSICAL
ENERGIES)
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It is indeed difficult to find suitable words in the
English language whereby to designate and wherewith to
describe the various levels of force and energy --
physical, mindal, or spiritual. These narratives cannot
altogether follow your accepted definitions of force,
energy, and power. There is such paucity of language
that we must use these terms in multiple meanings. In
this paper, for example, the word
energy is
used to denote all phases and forms of phenomenal
motion, action, and potential, while
force is
applied to the pregravity, and
power to the
postgravity, stages of energy.
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I will, however, endeavor to lessen conceptual confusion
by suggesting the advisability of adopting the following
classification for cosmic force, emergent energy, and
universe power -- physical energy:
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1. Space potency.
This is the unquestioned free space presence of the
Unqualified Absolute. The extension of this concept
connotes the universe force-space potential inherent in
the functional totality of the Unqualified Absolute,
while the intension of this concept implies the totality
of cosmic reality -- universes -- which emanated
eternitywise from the never-beginning, never-ending,
never-moving, never-changing Isle of Paradise.
42:2.4
The phenomena indigenous to the nether side of Paradise
probably embrace three zones of absolute force presence
and performance: the fulcral zone of the Unqualified
Absolute, the zone of the Isle of Paradise itself, and
the intervening zone of certain unidentified equalizing
and compensating agencies or functions. These
triconcentric zones are the centrum of the Paradise
cycle of cosmic reality.
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Space potency is a prereality; it is the domain of the
Unqualified Absolute and is responsive only to the
personal grasp of the Universal Father, notwithstanding
that it is seemingly modifiable by the presence of the
Primary Master Force Organizers.
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On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as absoluta.
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2. 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.
42:2.8
Passive 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.
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Primordial force is sometimes spoken of as
pure energy;
on Uversa we refer to it as segregata.
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3. 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:
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a. 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.
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b. 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.
42:2.13
We are quite uncertain regarding the exact causes of the
early stages of force evolution, but we recognize the
intelligent action of the Ultimate in both levels of
emergent-energy manifestation. Puissant and gravity
energies, when regarded collectively, are spoken of on
Uversa as ultimata.
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4. Universe power.
Space-force has been changed into space-energy and
thence into the energy of gravity control. Thus has
physical energy been ripened to that point where it can
be directed into channels of power and made to serve the
manifold purposes of the universe Creators. This work is
carried on by the versatile directors, centers, and
controllers of physical energy in the grand universe --
the organized and inhabited creations. These Universe
Power Directors assume the more or less complete control
of twenty-one of the thirty phases of energy
constituting the present energy system of the seven
superuniverses. This domain of power-energy-matter is
the realm of the intelligent activities of the
Sevenfold, functioning under the time-space overcontrol
of the Supreme.
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On Uversa we refer to the realm of universe power as
gravita.
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5. Havona energy.
In concept this narrative has been moving Paradiseward
as transmuting space-force has been followed, level by
level, to the working level of the energy-power of the
universes of time and space. Continuing Paradiseward,
there is next encountered a pre-existent phase of energy
which is characteristic of the central universe. Here
the evolutionary cycle seems to turn back upon itself;
energy-power now seems to begin to swing back towards
force, but force of a nature very unlike that of space
potency and primordial force. Havona energy systems are
not dual; they are triune. This is the existential
energy domain of the Conjoint Actor, functioning in
behalf of the Paradise Trinity.
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On Uversa these energies of Havona are known as triata.
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6. Transcendental
energy. This energy system operates on and from the
upper level of Paradise and only in connection with the
absonite peoples. On Uversa it is denominated tranosta.
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7. 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.
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We cannot differentiate the
nature of
Paradise spirit and Paradise monota; they are apparently
alike. They have different names, but you can hardly be
told very much about a reality whose spiritual and whose
nonspiritual manifestations are distinguishable only by
name.
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We know that finite creatures can attain the worship
experience of the Universal Father through the ministry
of God the Sevenfold and the Thought Adjusters, but we
doubt that any subabsolute personality, even power
directors, can comprehend the energy infinity of the
First Great Source and Center. One thing is certain: If
the power directors are conversant with the technique of
the metamorphosis of space-force, they do not reveal the
secret to the rest of us. It is my opinion that they do
not fully comprehend the function of the force
organizers.
42:2.22
These power directors themselves are energy catalyzers;
that is, they cause energy to segment, organize, or
assemble in unit formation by their presence. And all
this implies that there must be something inherent in
energy which causes it thus to function in the presence
of these power entities. The Nebadon Melchizedeks long
since denominated the phenomenon of the transmutation of
cosmic force into universe power as one of the seven
"infinities of divinity." And that is as far as you will
advance on this point during your local universe
ascension.
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Notwithstanding our inability fully to comprehend the
origin, nature, and transmutations of cosmic force, we
are fully conversant with all phases of emergent-energy
behavior from the times of its direct and unmistakable
response to the action of Paradise gravity -- about the
time of the beginning of the function of the
superuniverse power directors.
3. CLASSIFICATION OF MATTER
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Matter 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.
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In the varied suns, planets, and space bodies there are
ten grand divisions of matter:
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1. Ultimatonic matter -- the prime physical units of
material existence, the energy particles which go to
make up electrons.
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2. Subelectronic matter -- the explosive and repellent
stage of the solar supergases.
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3. Electronic matter -- the electrical stage of material
differentiation -- electrons, protons, and various other
units entering into the varied constitution of the
electronic groups.
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4. Subatomic matter -- matter existing extensively in
the interior of the hot suns.
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5. Shattered atoms -- found in the cooling suns and
throughout space.
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6. Ionized matter -- individual atoms stripped of their
outer (chemically active) electrons by electrical,
thermal, or X-ray activities and by solvents.
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7. Atomic matter -- the chemical stage of elemental
organization, the component units of molecular or
visible matter.
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8. The molecular stage of matter -- matter as it exists
on Urantia in a state of relatively stable
materialization under ordinary conditions.
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9. Radioactive matter -- the disorganizing tendency and
activity of the heavier elements under conditions of
moderate heat and diminished gravity pressure.
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10. 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.
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The 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.
4. ENERGY AND MATTER TRANSMUTATIONS
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Light, 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.
42:4.2
We 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.
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The 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.
42:4.4
Gravity 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.
42:4.5
Throughout 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.
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Gravity 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.
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Temperature -- 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.
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When 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.
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The 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.
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Throughout 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.
42:4.11
The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
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The 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.
5. WAVE-ENERGY MANIFESTATIONS
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In the superuniverse of Orvonton there are one hundred
octaves of wave energy. Of these one hundred groups of
energy manifestations, sixty-four are wholly or
partially recognized on Urantia. The sun's rays
constitute four octaves in the superuniverse scale, the
visible rays embracing a single octave, number forty-six
in this series. The ultraviolet group comes next, while
ten octaves up are the X rays, followed by the Y rays of
radium. Thirty-two octaves above the visible light of
the sun are the outer-space energy rays so frequently
commingled with their associated highly energized minute
particles of matter. Next downward from visible sunlight
appear the infrared rays, and thirty octaves below are
the radio transmission group.
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Wavelike energy manifestations -- from the standpoint of
twentieth-century Urantia scientific enlightenment --
may be classified into the following ten groups:
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1.
Infraultimatonic rays -- the borderland revolutions
of ultimatons as they begin to assume definite form.
This is the first stage of emergent energy in which
wavelike phenomena can be detected and measured.
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2. 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.
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3. The short
space rays. These are the shortest of all purely
electronic vibrations and represent the preatomic stage
of this form of matter. These rays require
extraordinarily high or low temperatures for their
production. There are two sorts of these space rays: one
attendant upon the birth of atoms and the other
indicative of atomic disruption. They emanate in the
largest quantities from the densest plane of the
superuniverse, the Milky Way, which is also the densest
plane of the outer universes.
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4. 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.
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5. Gamma rays
-- those emanations which characterize the spontaneous
dissociation of atomic matter. The best illustration of
this form of electronic activity is in the phenomena
associated with radium disintegration.
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6. The X-ray
group. The next step in the slowing down of the
electron yields the various forms of solar X rays
together with artificially generated X rays. The
electronic charge creates an electric field; movement
gives rise to an electric current; the current produces
a magnetic field. When an electron is suddenly stopped,
the resultant electromagnetic commotion produces the X
ray; the X ray is
that disturbance. The solar X rays are identical
with those which are mechanically generated for
exploring the interior of the human body except that
they are a trifle longer.
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7. The
ultraviolet or chemical rays of sunlight and the
various mechanical productions.
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8. The white
light -- the whole visible light of the suns.
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9. Infrared rays
-- the slowing down of electronic activity still nearer
the stage of appreciable heat.
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10. Hertzian
waves -- those energies utilized on Urantia for
broadcasting.
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Of all these ten phases of wavelike energy activity, the
human eye can react to just one octave, the whole light
of ordinary sunlight.
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The 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.
42:5.15
The 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.
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Primordial-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.
6. ULTIMATONS, ELECTRONS, AND ATOMS
42:6.1
While 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.
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Local or linear gravity becomes fully operative with the
appearance of the atomic organization of matter.
Preatomic matter becomes slightly gravity responsive
when activated by X ray and other similar energies, but
no measurable linear-gravity pull is exerted on free,
unattached, and uncharged electronic-energy particles or
on unassociated ultimatons.
42:6.3
Ultimatons function by mutual attraction, responding
only to the circular Paradise-gravity pull. Without
linear-gravity response they are thus held in the
universal space drift. Ultimatons are capable of
accelerating revolutionary velocity to the point of
partial antigravity behavior, but they cannot,
independent of force organizers or power directors,
attain the critical escape velocity of deindividuation,
return to the puissant-energy stage. In nature,
ultimatons escape the status of physical existence only
when participating in the terminal disruption of a
cooled-off and dying sun.
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The ultimatons, unknown on Urantia, slow down through
many phases of physical activity before they attain the
revolutionary-energy prerequisites to electronic
organization. Ultimatons have three varieties of motion:
mutual resistance to cosmic force, individual
revolutions of antigravity potential, and the
intraelectronic positions of the one hundred mutually
interassociated ultimatons.
42:6.5
Mutual attraction holds one hundred ultimatons together
in the constitution of the electron; and there are never
more nor less than one hundred ultimatons in a typical
electron. The loss of one or more ultimatons destroys
typical electronic identity, thus bringing into
existence one of the ten modified forms of the electron.
42:6.6
Ultimatons do not describe orbits or whirl about in
circuits within the electrons, but they do spread or
cluster in accordance with their axial revolutionary
velocities, thus determining the differential electronic
dimensions. This same ultimatonic velocity of axial
revolution also determines the negative or positive
reactions of the several types of electronic units. The
entire segregation and grouping of electronic matter,
together with the electric differentiation of negative
and positive bodies of energy-matter, result from these
various functions of the component ultimatonic
interassociation.
42:6.7
Each atom is a trifle over 1/100,000,000th of an inch in
diameter, while an electron weighs a little less than
1/2,000th of the smallest atom, hydrogen. The positive
proton, characteristic of the atomic nucleus, while it
may be no larger than a negative electron, weighs from
two to three thousand times more.
42:6.8
If the mass of matter should be magnified until that of
an electron equaled one tenth of an ounce, then were
size to be proportionately magnified, the volume of such
an electron would become as large as that of the earth.
If the volume of a proton -- eighteen hundred times as
heavy as an electron -- should be magnified to the size
of the head of a pin, then, in comparison, a pin's head
would attain a diameter equal to that of the earth's
orbit around the sun.
7. ATOMIC MATTER
42:7.1
The formation of all matter is on the order of the solar
system. There is at the center of every minute universe
of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary,
nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit
is endowed with a threefold possibility of
manifestation. Surrounding this energy center there
whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits,
the energy units which are faintly comparable to the
planets encircling the sun of some starry group like
your own solar system.
42:7.2
Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central
proton with about the same comparative room the planets
have as they revolve about the sun in the space of the
solar system. There is the same relative distance, in
comparison with actual size, between the atomic nucleus
and the inner electronic circuit as exists between the
inner planet, Mercury, and your sun.
42:7.3
The electronic axial revolutions and their orbital
velocities about the atomic nucleus are both beyond the
human imagination, not to mention the velocities of
their component ultimatons. The positive particles of
radium fly off into space at the rate of ten thousand
miles a second, while the negative particles attain a
velocity approximating that of light.
42:7.4
The 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.
42:7.5
Not every world will show one hundred recognizable
elements at the surface, but they are somewhere present,
have been present, or are in process of evolution.
Conditions surrounding the origin and subsequent
evolution of a planet determine how many of the one
hundred atomic types will be observable. The heavier
atoms are not found on the surface of many worlds. Even
on Urantia the known heavier elements manifest a
tendency to fly to pieces, as is illustrated by radium
behavior.
42:7.6
Stability of the atom depends on the number of
electrically inactive neutrons in the central body.
Chemical behavior is wholly dependent on the activity of
the freely revolving electrons.
42:7.7
In Orvonton it has never been possible naturally to
assemble over one hundred orbital electrons in one
atomic system. When one hundred and one have been
artificially introduced into the orbital field, the
result has always been the instantaneous disruption of
the central proton with the wild dispersion of the
electrons and other liberated energies.
42:7.8
While atoms may contain from one to one hundred orbital
electrons, only the outer ten electrons of the larger
atoms revolve about the central nucleus as distinct and
discrete bodies, intactly and compactly swinging around
on precise and definite orbits. The thirty electrons
nearest the center are difficult of observation or
detection as separate and organized bodies. This same
comparative ratio of electronic behavior in relation to
nuclear proximity obtains in all atoms regardless of the
number of electrons embraced. The nearer the nucleus,
the less there is of electronic individuality. The
wavelike energy extension of an electron may so spread
out as to occupy the whole of the lesser atomic orbits;
especially is this true of the electrons nearest the
atomic nucleus.
42:7.9
The thirty innermost orbital electrons have
individuality, but their energy systems tend to
intermingle, extending from electron to electron and
well-nigh from orbit to orbit. The next thirty electrons
constitute the second family, or energy zone, and are of
advancing individuality, bodies of matter exerting a
more complete control over their attendant energy
systems. The next thirty electrons, the third energy
zone, are still more individualized and circulate in
more distinct and definite orbits. The last ten
electrons, present in only the ten heaviest elements,
are possessed of the dignity of independence and are,
therefore, able to escape more or less freely from the
control of the mother nucleus. With a minimum variation
in temperature and pressure, the members of this fourth
and outermost group of electrons will escape from the
grasp of the central nucleus, as is illustrated by the
spontaneous disruption of uranium and kindred elements.
42:7.10
The first twenty-seven atoms, those containing from one
to twenty-seven orbital electrons, are more easy of
comprehension than the rest. From twenty-eight upward we
encounter more and more of the unpredictability of the
supposed presence of the Unqualified Absolute. But some
of this electronic unpredictability is due to
differential ultimatonic axial revolutionary velocities
and to the unexplained "huddling" proclivity of
ultimatons. Other influences -- physical, electrical,
magnetic, and gravitational -- also operate to produce
variable electronic behavior. Atoms therefore are
similar to persons as to predictability. Statisticians
may announce laws governing a large number of either
atoms or persons but not for a single individual atom or
person.
8. ATOMIC COHESION
42:8.1
While gravity is one of several factors concerned in
holding together a tiny atomic energy system, there is
also present in and among these basic physical units a
powerful and unknown energy, the secret of their basic
constitution and ultimate behavior, a force which
remains to be discovered on Urantia. This universal
influence permeates all the space embraced within this
tiny energy organization.
42:8.2
The 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.
42:8.3
The charged protons and the uncharged neutrons of the
nucleus of the atom are held together by the
reciprocating function of the mesotron, a particle of
matter 180 times as heavy as the electron. Without this
arrangement the electric charge carried by the protons
would be disruptive of the atomic nucleus.
42:8.4
As atoms are constituted, neither electric nor
gravitational forces could hold the nucleus together.
The integrity of the nucleus is maintained by the
reciprocal cohering function of the mesotron, which is
able to hold charged and uncharged particles together
because of superior force-mass power and by the further
function of causing protons and neutrons constantly to
change places. The mesotron causes the electric charge
of the nuclear particles to be incessantly tossed back
and forth between protons and neutrons. At one
infinitesimal part of a second a given nuclear particle
is a charged proton and the next an uncharged neutron.
And these alternations of energy status are so
unbelievably rapid that the electric charge is deprived
of all opportunity to function as a disruptive
influence. Thus does the mesotron function as an
"energy-carrier" particle which mightily contributes to
the nuclear stability of the atom.
42:8.5
The presence and function of the mesotron also explains
another atomic riddle. When atoms perform radioactively,
they emit far more energy than would be expected. This
excess of radiation is derived from the breaking up of
the mesotron "energy carrier," which thereby becomes a
mere electron. The mesotronic disintegration is also
accompanied by the emission of certain small uncharged
particles.
42:8.6
The mesotron explains certain cohesive properties of the
atomic nucleus, but it does not account for the cohesion
of proton to proton nor for the adhesion of neutron to
neutron. The paradoxical and powerful force of atomic
cohesive integrity is a form of energy as yet
undiscovered on Urantia.
42:8.7
These mesotrons are found abundantly in the space rays
which so incessantly impinge upon your planet.
9. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
42:9.1
Religion 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.
42:9.2
The number seven is basic to the central universe and
the spiritual system of inherent transmissions of
character, but the number ten, the decimal system, is
inherent in energy, matter, and the material creation.
Nevertheless the atomic world does display a certain
periodic characterization which recurs in groups of
seven -- a birthmark carried by this material world
indicative of its far-distant spiritual origin.
42:9.3
This 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.
42:9.4
But not all the suppositions of natural philosophy are
valid; for example, the hypothetical ether, which
represents an ingenious attempt of man to unify his
ignorance of space phenomena. The philosophy of the
universe cannot be predicated on the observations of
so-called science. If such a metamorphosis could not be
seen, a scientist would be inclined to deny the
possibility of developing a butterfly out of a
caterpillar.
42:9.5
Physical 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.
10. UNIVERSAL NONSPIRITUAL ENERGY SYSTEMS (MATERIAL MIND
SYSTEMS)
42:10.1
The 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.
42:10.2
The universal nonspiritual energies are reassociated in
the living systems of non-Creator minds on various
levels, certain of which may be depicted as follows:
42:10.3
1.
Preadjutant-spirit minds. This level of mind is
nonexperiencing and on the inhabited worlds is
ministered by the Master Physical Controllers. This is
mechanical mind, the nonteachable intellect of the most
primitive forms of material life, but the nonteachable
mind functions on many levels beside that of primitive
planetary life.
42:10.4
2.
Adjutant-spirit minds. This is the ministry of a
local universe Mother Spirit functioning through her
seven adjutant mind-spirits on the teachable
(nonmechanical) level of material mind. On this level
material mind is experiencing: as subhuman (animal)
intellect in the first five adjutants; as human (moral)
intellect in the seven adjutants; as superhuman
(midwayer) intellect in the last two adjutants.
42:10.5
3. Evolving
morontia minds -- the expanding consciousness of
evolving personalities in the local universe ascending
careers. This is the bestowal of the local universe
Mother Spirit in liaison with the Creator Son. This mind
level connotes the organization of the morontia type of
life vehicle, a synthesis of the material and the
spiritual which is effected by the Morontia Power
Supervisors of a local universe. Morontia mind functions
differentially in response to the 570 levels of morontia
life, disclosing increasing associative capacity with
the cosmic mind on the higher levels of attainment. This
is the evolutionary course of mortal creatures, but mind
of a nonmorontia order is also bestowed by a Universe
Son and a Universe Spirit upon the nonmorontia children
of the local creations.
42:10.6
The cosmic mind.
This is the sevenfold diversified mind of time and
space, one phase of which is ministered by each of the
Seven Master Spirits to one of the seven superuniverses.
The cosmic mind encompasses all finite-mind levels and
co-ordinates experientially with the evolutionary-deity
levels of the Supreme Mind and transcendentally with the
existential levels of absolute mind -- the direct
circuits of the Conjoint Actor.
42:10.7
On Paradise, mind is absolute; in Havona, absonite; in
Orvonton, finite. Mind always connotes the
presence-activity of living ministry plus varied energy
systems, and this is true of all levels and of all kinds
of mind. But beyond the cosmic mind it becomes
increasingly difficult to portray the relationships of
mind to nonspiritual energy. Havona mind is subabsolute
but superevolutionary; being existential-experiential,
it is nearer the absonite than any other concept
revealed to you. Paradise mind is beyond human
understanding; it is existential, nonspatial, and
nontemporal. Nevertheless, all of these levels of mind
are overshadowed by the universal presence of the
Conjoint Actor -- by the mind-gravity grasp of the God
of mind on Paradise.
11. UNIVERSE MECHANISMS
42:11.1
In 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.
42:11.2
Mechanisms do not absolutely dominate the total
creation; the universe of universes
in toto is
mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. But the
divine mechanism of the universe of universes is
altogether too perfect for the scientific methods of the
finite mind of man to discern even a trace of the
dominance of the infinite mind. For this creating,
controlling, and upholding mind is neither material mind
nor creature mind; it is spirit-mind functioning on and
from creator levels of divine reality.
42:11.3
The ability to discern and discover mind in universe
mechanisms depends entirely on the ability, scope, and
capacity of the investigating mind engaged in such a
task of observation. Time-space minds, organized out of
the energies of time and space, are subject to the
mechanisms of time and space.
42:11.4
Motion 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.
42:11.5
Linear-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.
42:11.6
Extremely complex and highly automatic-appearing cosmic
mechanisms always tend to conceal the presence of the
originative or creative indwelling mind from any and all
intelligences very far below the universe levels of the
nature and capacity of the mechanism itself. Therefore
is it inevitable that the higher universe mechanisms
must appear to be mindless to the lower orders of
creatures. The only possible exception to such a
conclusion would be the implication of mindedness in the
amazing phenomenon of an
apparently
self-maintaining universe -- but that is a matter of
philosophy rather than one of actual experience.
42:11.7
Since mind co-ordinates the universe, fixity of
mechanisms is nonexistent. The phenomenon of progressive
evolution associated with cosmic self-maintenance is
universal. The evolutionary capacity of the universe is
inexhaustible in the infinity of spontaneity. Progress
towards harmonious unity, a growing experiential
synthesis superimposed on an ever-increasing complexity
of relationships, could be effected only by a purposive
and dominant mind.
42:11.8
The higher the universe mind associated with any
universe phenomenon, the more difficult it is for the
lower types of mind to discover it. And since the mind
of the universe mechanism is creative spirit-mind (even
the mindedness of the Infinite), it can never be
discovered or discerned by the lower-level minds of the
universe, much less by the lowest mind of all, the
human. The evolving animal mind, while naturally
God-seeking, is not alone and of itself inherently
God-knowing.
12. PATTERN AND FORM -- MIND DOMINANCE
42:12.1
The evolution of mechanisms implies and indicates the
concealed presence and dominance of creative mind. The
ability of the mortal intellect to conceive, design, and
create automatic mechanisms demonstrates the superior,
creative, and purposive qualities of man's mind as the
dominant influence on the planet. Mind always reaches
out towards:
1. Creation of material mechanisms.
2. Discovery of hidden mysteries.
3. Exploration of remote situations.
4. Formulation of mental systems.
5. Attainment of wisdom goals.
6. Achievement of spirit levels.
7. The accomplishment of divine destinies -- supreme,
ultimate, and absolute.
42:12.2
Mind is always creative. The mind endowment of an
individual animal, mortal, morontian, spirit ascender,
or finality attainer is always competent to produce a
suitable and serviceable body for the living creature
identity. But the presence phenomenon of a personality
or the pattern of an identity, as such, is not a
manifestation of energy, either physical, mindal, or
spiritual. The personality form is the
pattern
aspect of a living being; it connotes the
arrangement
of energies, and this, plus life and motion, is the
mechanism of
creature existence.
42:12.3
Even spirit beings have form, and these spirit forms
(patterns) are real. Even the highest type of spirit
personalities have forms -- personality presences in
every sense analogous to Urantia mortal bodies. Nearly
all beings encountered in the seven superuniverses are
possessed of forms. But there are a few exceptions to
this general rule: Thought Adjusters appear to be
without form until after fusion with the surviving souls
of their mortal associates. Solitary Messengers,
Inspired Trinity Spirits, Personal Aids of the Infinite
Spirit, Gravity Messengers, Transcendental Recorders,
and certain others are also without discoverable form.
But these are typical of the exceptional few; the great
majority have bona fide personality forms, forms which
are individually characteristic, and which are
recognizable and personally distinguishable.
42:12.4
The liaison of the cosmic mind and the ministry of the
adjutant mind-spirits evolve a suitable physical
tabernacle for the evolving human being. Likewise does
the morontia mind individualize the morontia form for
all mortal survivors. As the mortal body is personal and
characteristic for every human being, so will the
morontia form be highly individual and adequately
characteristic of the creative mind which dominates it.
No two morontia forms are any more alike than any two
human bodies. The Morontia Power Supervisors sponsor,
and the attending seraphim provide, the undifferentiated
morontia material wherewith the morontia life can begin
to work. And after the morontia life it will be found
that spirit forms are equally diverse, personal, and
characteristic of their respective spirit-mind
indwellers.
42:12.5
On a material world you think of a body as having a
spirit, but we regard the spirit as having a body. The
material eyes are truly the windows of the spirit-born
soul. The spirit is the architect, the mind is the
builder, the body is the material building.
42:12.6
Physical, spiritual, and mindal energies, as such and in
their pure states, do not fully interact as actuals of
the phenomenal universes. On Paradise the three energies
are co-ordinate, in Havona co-ordinated, while in the
universe levels of finite activities there must be
encountered all ranges of material, mindal, and
spiritual dominance. In nonpersonal situations of time
and space, physical energy seems to predominate, but it
also appears that the more nearly spirit-mind function
approaches divinity of purpose and supremacy of action,
the more nearly does the spirit phase become dominant;
that on the ultimate level spirit-mind may become all
but completely dominant. On the absolute level spirit
certainly is dominant. And from there on out through the
realms of time and space, wherever a divine spirit
reality is present, whenever a real spirit-mind is
functioning, there always tends to be produced a
material or physical counterpart of that spirit reality.
42:12.7
The 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.
42:12.8
Mind 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.
42:12.9
Presented by a Mighty Messenger on duty in Nebadon and
by the request of Gabriel.
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