PAPER 42
ENERGY -- MIND AND MATTER
42:0.1 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.
42:0.2 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
42:1.1 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.
42:1.2 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.
42:1.3 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.
42:1.4 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.
42:1.5 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.
42:1.6 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.
42:1.7 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.
42:1.8 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.
42:1.9 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)
42:2.1 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.
42:2.2 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:
42:2.3 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.
42:2.5 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.
42:2.6 On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as
absoluta.
42:2.7 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.
42:2.9 Primordial force is sometimes spoken of as
pure energy; on Uversa we refer to it as segregata.
42:2.10 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:
42:2.11 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.
42:2.12 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.
42:2.14 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.
42:2.15 On Uversa we refer to the realm of universe
power as gravita.
42:2.16 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.
42:2.17 On Uversa these energies of Havona are known
as triata.
42:2.18 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.
42:2.19 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.
42:2.20 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.
42:2.21 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.
42:2.23 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
42:3.1 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.
42:3.2 In the varied suns, planets, and space bodies
there are ten grand divisions of matter:
42:3.3 1. Ultimatonic matter -- the prime physical
units of material existence, the energy particles which go to make up
electrons.
42:3.4 2. Subelectronic matter -- the explosive and
repellent stage of the solar supergases.
42:3.5 3. Electronic matter -- the electrical stage
of material differentiation -- electrons, protons, and various other units
entering into the varied constitution of the electronic groups.
42:3.6 4. Subatomic matter -- matter existing
extensively in the interior of the hot suns.
42:3.7 5. Shattered atoms -- found in the cooling
suns and throughout space.
42:3.8 6. Ionized matter -- individual atoms
stripped of their outer (chemically active) electrons by electrical, thermal,
or X-ray activities and by solvents.
42:3.9 7. Atomic matter -- the chemical stage of
elemental organization, the component units of molecular or visible
matter.
42:3.10 8. The molecular stage of matter -- matter
as it exists on Urantia in a state of relatively stable materialization under
ordinary conditions.
42:3.11 9. Radioactive matter -- the disorganizing
tendency and activity of the heavier elements under conditions of moderate
heat and diminished gravity pressure.
42:3.12 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.
42:3.13 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
42:4.1 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.
42:4.3 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.
42:4.6 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.
42:4.7 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.
42:4.8 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.
42:4.9 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.
42:4.10 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.
42:4.12 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.
42:4.13 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.
42:4.14 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
42:5.1 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.
42:5.2 Wavelike energy manifestations -- from the
standpoint of twentieth-century Urantia scientific enlightenment -- may be
classified into the following ten groups:
42:5.3 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.
42:5.4 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.
42:5.5 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.
42:5.6 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.
42:5.7 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.
42:5.8 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.
42:5.9 7. The ultraviolet or chemical rays of
sunlight and the various mechanical productions.
42:5.10 8. The white light -- the whole
visible light of the suns.
42:5.11 9. Infrared rays -- the slowing down
of electronic activity still nearer the stage of appreciable heat.
42:5.12 10. Hertzian waves -- those energies
utilized on Urantia for broadcasting.
42:5.13 Of all these ten phases of wavelike energy
activity, the human eye can react to just one octave, the whole light of
ordinary sunlight.
42:5.14 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.
42:5.16 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.
42:6.2 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.
42:6.4 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.
