Urantia United
P130:2, 12:1.10 The central universe is the creation of eternity; the other universes are the creations of time; the four outer space levels are undoubtedly destined to eventuate-evolve the ultimacy of creation. And there are those who maintain that the Infinite can never attain full expression short of infinity; and therefore do they postulate an additional and unrevealed creation beyond the fourth and outermost space level, a possible ever-expanding, never-ending universe of infinity. In theory we do not know how to limit either the infinity of the Creator or the potential infinity of creation, but as it exists and is administered, we regard the master universe as having limitations, as being definitely delimited and bounded on its outer margins by open space.
Part I. The Central and Universe
Chapter 9: Section 2.
The Unqualified Absolute
P130:3, 12:2.1 When astronomers peer through their increasingly powerful telescopes into the mysterious stretches of outer space and there behold the amazing evolution of almost countless stars, they should realize that they are gazing upon the mighty outworking of the unsearchable plans of God. True, we do possess evidences which are suggestive of the presence of certain Paradise personality influences here and there throughout the vast energy manifestations now characteristic of these outer regions, but from the larger viewpoint the space regions extending beyond the outer borders of the universes are generally recognized as constituting the Unqualified Absolute.
P130:4, 12:2.2 Although the unaided human eye can see only two or three nebulae outside the borders of Orvonton, our telescopes literally reveal millions upon million stars in process of formation. Most of the starry realms visually exposed to the search of your present-day telescopes are in Orvonton, but with photographic technique the larger telescopes penetrate far beyond the borders of the grand universe into the domains of outer space.
P130:5, 12:2.3 In the not-distant future, new telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of astronomers several million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space. The universes are still growing; the periphery of each is gradually expanding; new nebulae are constantly being stabilized and organized; and some of the nebulae which astronomers regard as extragalactic are actually on the fringe and are traveling along with us.
P131:1, 12:2.4 The grand universe is surrounded by the ancestors of a series of starry and planetary clusters which completely encircle the present creation as concentric rings of outer universes upon. We calculate that the energy and matter of these outer and uncharted regions already equal many times the total material mass and energy charge embraced in all universes. We are informed that the metamorphosis of cosmic force in these outer space levels is a function of the Paradise force organizers. We also know that these forces are ancestral to those physical energies that at present activate the grand universe. The energy movements therein are not discernibly connected with the power circuits of the organized creations.
P131:2, 12:2.5 We know very little of the significance of these tremendous phenomena of outer space. A greater creation of the future is in process of formation. We can observe its immensity, we can discern its extent and sense its majestic dimensions, but otherwise we know little more about these realms. As far as we know, no material beings on the order of humans, no other spirit creatures exist in this outer ring of nebulae, suns, and planets.
P131:3, 12:2.6 It is believed that a new type of creation is in process, an order of universes destined to become the scene of the future activities; and if our conjectures are correct, then the endless future may hold for all of you the same enthralling spectacles that the endless past has held for your seniors and predecessors.
Part I. The Central Universes
Chapter 9: Section 3.
Universal Gravity
P131:4, 12:3.1 All forms of force-energy -- material, mindal, or spiritual -- are alike subject to those grasps, those universal presences, which we call gravity. Personality also is responsive to gravity -- to the Father's exclusive circuit; but though this circuit is exclusive to the Father, he is not excluded from the other circuits; the Universal Father is infinite and acts over all four absolute-gravity circuits in the master universe:
1.The Personality Gravity of the Universal Father.
2.The Mind Gravity of the Conjoint Actor.
3.The Cosmic Gravity of the Isle of Paradise.
P131:9, 12:3.2 These three circuits are not related to the nether Paradise force center; they are neither force, energy, nor power circuits. They are absolute presence circuits and like God are independent of time and space.
P132:1, 12:3.3 We have arrived at the following conclusions regarding the different gravity systems of the master universe:
P132:2, 12:3.4 1. Physical Gravity. Having formulated an estimate of the summation of the entire physical-gravity capacity of the grand universe, we have laboriously effected a comparison of this finding with the estimated total of absolute gravity presence now operative. These calculations indicate that the total gravity action on the grand universe is a very small part of the estimated gravity pull of Paradise, computed on the basis of the gravity response of basic physical units of universe matter. We reached the amazing conclusion that the central universe and the surrounding universes are at the present time making use of only about five per cent of the active functioning of the Paradise absolute-gravity grasp. In other words: At the present moment about ninety-five per cent of the active cosmic-gravity action of the Isle of Paradise, computed on this totality theory, is engaged in controlling material systems beyond the borders of the present organized universes. These calculations all refer to absolute gravity; linear gravity is an interactive phenomenon that can be computed only by knowing the actual Paradise gravity.
P132:3, 12:3.5 2. Spiritual Gravity. By the same technique of comparative estimation and calculation we have explored the present reaction capacity of spirit gravity and, with the co-operation of Solitary Messengers and other spirit personalities, have arrived at the summation of the active spirit gravity of the Second Source and Center. And it is most instructive to note that they find about the same value for the actual and functional presence of spirit gravity in the grand universe that they postulate for the present total of active spirit gravity. In other words: At the present time practically the entire spirit gravity, computed on this theory of totality, is observable as functioning in the grand universe. If these findings are dependable, we may conclude that the universes now evolving in outer space are at the present time wholly nonspiritual. And if this were true, it would satisfactorily explain why spirit-endowed beings are in possession of little or no information about these vast energy manifestations aside from knowing the fact of their physical existence.
P132:4, 12:3.6 3. Mind Gravity. By these same principles of comparative computation we have attacked the problem of mind-gravity presence and response. Averaging three material and three spiritual types of mentality arrived at the mind unit of estimation, although the type of mind found in the power directors and their associates proved to be a disturbing factor in the effort to arrive at a basic unit for mind-gravity estimation. There was little to impede the estimation of the present capacity of the Second Source and Center for mind-gravity function in accordance with this theory of totality. Although the findings in this instance are not so conclusive as in the estimates of physical and spirit gravity, they are, comparatively considered, very instructive, even intriguing. We deduce that about eighty-five per cent of the mind-gravity response to the intellectual drawing of the Conjoint Actor takes origin in the existing grand universe. This would suggest the possibility that mind activities are involved in connection with the observable physical activities now in progress throughout the realms of outer space. While this estimate is probably far from accurate, it accords, in principle, with our belief that intelligent force organizers are at present directing universe evolution in the space levels beyond the present outer limits of the grand universe. Whatever the nature of this
postulated intelligence, it is apparently not spirit-gravity responsive.
P133:1, 12:3.7 But all these computations are at best estimates based on assumed laws. We think they are fairly reliable. Even if a few spirit beings were located in outer space, their collective presence would not markedly influence calculations involving such enormous measurements.
P133:2, 12:3.8 Personality Gravity is non-computable. We recognize the circuit, but we cannot measure either qualitative or quantitative realities responsive thereto.
Part I. The Central Universe
Chapter 9: Section 4.
Space And Motion
P133:3, 12:4.1 All units of cosmic energy are in primary revolution, are engaged in the execution of their mission, while swinging around the universal orbit. The universes of space and their component systems and worlds are all revolving spheres, moving along the endless circuits of the master universe space levels. Absolutely nothing is stationary in the entire master universe except the very center of Heaven, the eternal Isle of Paradise, the center of gravity.
P133:4, 12:4.2 The Unqualified Absolute is functionally limited to space, but we are not so sure about the relation of this Absolute to motion. Is motion inherent therein? We do not know. We know that motion is not inherent in space; even the motions of space are not innate. But we are not so sure about the relation of the Unqualified to motion. Who, or what, is really responsible for the gigantic activities of force-energy transmutations now in progress out beyond the borders of the present seven superuniverses? Concerning the origin of motion we have the following opinions:
P133:5, 12:4.3 1. We think the Conjoint Actor initiates motion in space.
P133:6, 12:4.4 2. If the Conjoint Actor produces the motions of space.
P133:7, 12:4.5 3. The Universal Absolute does not originate initial motion but does equalize and control all of the tensions originated by motion.
P133:8, 12:4.6 In outer space the force organizers are apparently responsible for the production of the gigantic universe wheels which are now in process of stellar evolution, but their ability so to function must have been made possible by some modification of the space presence of the Unqualified Absolute.
P133:9, 12:4.7 Space is, from the human viewpoint, nothing -- negative; it exists only as related to something positive and nonspatial. Space is, however, real. It contains and conditions motion. It even moves. Space motions may be roughly classified as follows:
P133:10, 12:4.8 1. Primary motion -- space respiration, the motion of space itself.
P133:11, 12:4.9 2. Secondary motion -- the alternate directional swings of the successive space levels.
P133:12, 12:4.10 3. Relative motions -- relative in the sense that they are not evaluated with Paradise as a base point. Primary and secondary motions are absolute, motion in relation to unmoving Paradise.
P133:13, 12:4.11 4. Compensatory or correlating movement designed to co-ordinate all other motions.
P134:1, 12:4.12 The present relationship of your sun and its associated planets, while disclosing many relative and absolute motions in space, tends to convey the impression to astronomic observers that you are comparatively stationary in space, and that the surrounding starry clusters and streams are engaged in outward flight at ever-increasing velocities as your calculations proceed outward in space. But such is not the case. You fail to recognize the present outward and uniform expansion of the physical creations of all pervaded space.
P134:2, 12:4.13 When the universes expand and contract, the material masses in pervaded space alternately move against and with the pull of Paradise gravity. The work that is done in moving the material energy mass of creation is space work but not power-energy work.
P134:3, 12:4.14 Although your spectroscopic estimations of astronomic velocities are fairly reliable when applied to the starry realms belonging to your universe and its associate universes, such reckonings with reference to the realms of outer space are wholly unreliable. Spectral lines are displaced from the normal towards the violet by an approaching star; likewise these lines are displaced towards the red by a receding star. Many influences interpose to make it appear that the recessional velocity of the external universes increases at the rate of more than one hundred miles a second for every million light-years increase in distance. By this method of reckoning, subsequent to the perfection of more powerful telescopes, it will appear that these far-distant systems are in flight from this part of the universe at the unbelievable rate of more than thirty thousand miles a second. But this apparent speed of recession is not real; it results from numerous factors of error embracing angles of observation and other time-space distortions.
P134:4, 12:4.15 But the greatest of all such distortions arises because the vast universes of outer space in the realms next to the domains of the universes seem to be revolving in a direction opposite to that of the grand universe. That is, these myriads of nebulae and their accompanying suns and spheres are at the present time revolving clockwise about the central creation. The universes revolve about Paradise in a counterclockwise direction. It appears that the second outer universe of galaxies, like the universes, revolves counterclockwise about Paradise. We also detect evidence of revolutionary movements in a third outer belt of far-distant space that are beginning to exhibit directional tendencies of a clockwise nature.
P134:5, 12:4.16 It is probable that these alternate directions of successive space processions of the universes have something to do with the intramaster universe gravity technique of the Universal Absolute, which consists of a co-ordination of forces and an equalization of space tensions. Motion as well as space is a complement or equilibrant of gravity.
Part I. The Central and Superuniverses
Chapter 9: Section 5.
Space And Time
P134:6, 12:5.1 Like space, time is a bestowal of Paradise, but not in the same sense, only indirectly. Time comes by virtue of motion and because mind is inherently aware of sequentiality. From a practical viewpoint, motion is essential to time, but there is no universal time unit based on motion except in so far as the Paradise-Heaven standard day is arbitrarily so recognized. The totality of space respiration destroys its local value as a time source.
P135:1, 12:5.2 Space is not infinite, even though it takes origin from Paradise; not absolute, for it is pervaded by the Unqualified Absolute. We do not know the absolute limits of space, but we do know that the absolute of time is eternity.
P135:2, 12:5.3 Time and space are inseparable only in the time-space creations. Nontemporal space (space without time) theoretically exists, but the only truly nontemporal place is Paradise area. Nonspatial time (time without space) exists in mind of the Paradise level of function.
P135:3, 12:5.4 The relatively motionless midspace zones impinging on Paradise and separating pervaded from un-pervaded space are the transition zones from time to eternity, hence the necessity of Paradise pilgrims becoming unconscious during this transit when it is to culminate in Paradise citizenship. Time-conscious visitors can go to Paradise without thus sleeping, but they remain creatures of time.
P135:4, 12:5.5 Relationships to time do not exist without motion in space, but consciousness of time does. Sequentiality can consciousize time even in the absence of motion. Man's mind is less time-bound than space-bound because of the inherent nature of mind. Even during the days of the earth life in the flesh, though man's mind is rigidly space-bound, the creative human imagination is comparatively time free. But time itself is not genetically a quality of mind.
P135:5, 12:5.6 There are three different levels of time cognizance:
P135:6, 12:5.7 1. Mind-perceived time -- consciousness of sequence, motion, and a sense of duration.
P135:7, 12:5.8 2. Spirit-perceived time -- insight into motion Godward and the awareness of the motion of ascent to levels of increasing divinity.
P135:8, 12:5.9 3. Personality creates a unique time sense out of insight into Reality plus a consciousness of presence an
d an awareness of duration.
P135:9, 12:5.10 Unspiritual animals know only the past and live in the present. Spirit-indwelt man has powers of prevision (insight); he may visualize the future. Only forward-looking and progressive attitudes are personally real. Static ethics and traditional morality are just slightly superanimal. Nor is stoicism a high order of self-realization. Ethics and morals become truly human when they are dynamic and progressive, alive with universe reality.
P135:10, 12:5.11 The human personality is not merely a concomitant of time-and-space events; the human personality can also act as the cosmic cause of such events.
Part I. The Central and Superuniverses
Chapter 9: Section 6.
Universal Overcontrol
P135:11, 12:6.1 The universe is nonstatic. Stability is not the result of inertia but rather the product of balanced energies, co-operative minds, co-ordinated morontias, spirit overcontrol, and personality unification. Stability is wholly and always proportional to divinity.
P135:12, 12:6.2 In the physical control of the master universe the Universal Father exercises priority and primacy through the Isle of Paradise; God is absolute in the spiritual administration of the cosmos. Concerning the domains of mind, the Father functions coordinately in the Conjoint Actor.
P136:1, 12:6.3 The Second Source and Center assists in the maintenance of the equilibrium and co-ordination of the combined physical and spiritual energies and organizations by the absoluteness of his grasp of the cosmic mind and by the exercise of his inherent and universal physical- and spiritual-gravity complements. Whenever and wherever there occurs a liaison between the material and the spiritual, such a mind phenomenon is an act of the Infinite Spirit. Mind alone can interassociate the physical forces and energies of the material level with the spiritual powers and beings of the spirit level.