P404:4, 36:6.6 We speak of life as "energy" and as "force," but it is really neither. Force-energy is variously gravity responsive; life is not. Pattern is also nonresponsive to gravity, being a configuration of energies that have already fulfilled all gravity-responsive obligations. Life, as such, constitutes the animation of some pattern-configured or otherwise segregated system of energy -- material, mindal, or spiritual.
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Chapter 14
Physical Aspects Of The Local Universe
P455:1, 41:0.1 The characteristic space phenomenon which sets off each local creation from all others is the presence of the Creative Spirit. A Master Physical Controller works in co-ordination with the system power center, serving as liaison chief of the power inspectors and functioning throughout the local system.
P457:3, 41:2.4 The circuitizing and channelizing of energy is supervised by the living and intelligent energy manipulators. Through the action of such physical controllers the supervising power centers are in complete and perfect control of a majority of the basic energies of space, including the emanations of highly heated orbs and the dark energy-charged spheres. This group can mobilize, transform, transmute, manipulate, and transmit nearly all of the physical energies of organized space.
P457:4, 41:2.5 Life has inherent capacity for the mobilization and transmutation of universal energy. You are familiar with the action of vegetable life in transforming the material energy of light into the varied manifestations of the vegetable kingdom. You also know something of the method whereby this vegetative energy can be converted into the phenomena of animal activities, but you know practically nothing of the technique of the power directors and the physical controllers, who are endowed with ability to mobilize, transform, directionize, and concentrate the manifold energies of space.
P457:5, 41:2.6 These controllers do not directly concern themselves with energy as a component factor of living creatures, not even with the domain of physiological chemistry. They are sometimes concerned with the physical preliminaries of life, with the elaboration of those energy systems that may serve as the physical vehicles for the living energies of elementary material organisms. In a way the physical controllers are related to the pre-living manifestations of material energy as the adjutant mind-spirits are concerned with the pre-spiritual functions of material mind.
P457:6, 41:2.7 These power controllers and energy directors must adjust their technique on each sphere in accordance with the physical constitution and architecture of the planet. They unfailingly utilize the calculations and deductions of their respective staffs of physicists and other technical advisers regarding the local influence of highly heated suns and other types of supercharged stars. Even the enormous cold and dark giants of space and the swarming clouds of stardust must be reckoned with; all of these material things are concerned in the practical problems of energy manipulation.
P457:7, 41:2.8 The power-energy supervision of the evolutionary inhabited worlds is the responsibility of the Master Physical Controllers, but these controllers are not responsible for all energy misbehavior on Earth. There are a number of reasons for such disturbances, some of which are beyond the domain and control of the physical custodians. Earth is in the lines of tremendous energies, a small planet in the circuit of enormous masses, and the local controllers sometimes employ enormous numbers of their order in an effort to equalize these lines of energy.
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Chapter 14: Section 1.
Our Starry Associates
P458:1, 41:3.1 The Universe Power Directors initiate the specialized currents of energy which play between the individual stars and their respective systems. These solar furnaces, together with the dark giants of space, serve the power centers and physical controllers as way stations for the effective concentrating and directionizing of the energy circuits of the material creations.
P458:2, 41:3.2 The material composition of all suns, dark islands, planets, and satellites, even meteors, is quite identical. These suns have an average diameter of about one million miles, that of your own solar orb being slightly less. The largest star in the universe, the stellar cloud Antares, is four hundred and fifty times the diameter of your sun and is sixty million times its volume. But there is abundant space to accommodate all of these enormous suns. They have just as much comparative elbowroom in space, as one dozen oranges would have if they were circulating about throughout the interior of Earth, and were the planet a hollow globe.
P458:3, 41:3.3 All suns are originally truly gaseous, though they may later transiently exist in a semi-liquid state. When your sun attained this quasi-liquid state of super-gas pressure, it was not sufficiently large to split equatorially, this being one type of double star formation.
P458:4, 41:3.4 When less than one tenth the size of your sun, these fiery spheres rapidly contract, condense, and cool. When upwards of thirty times its size -- rather thirty times the gross content of actual material -- suns readily split into two separate bodies, either becoming the centers of new systems or else remaining in each other's gravity grasp and revolving about a common center as one type of double star.
P458:5, 41:3.5 The most recent of the major cosmic eruptions was the extraordinary double star explosion, the light of which reached Earth in A.D. 1572. This conflagration was so intense that the explosion was clearly visible in broad daylight.
P458:6, 41:3.6 Not all stars are solid, but many of the older ones are. Some of the reddish, faintly glimmering stars have acquired a density at the center of their enormous masses which would be expressed by saying that one cubic inch of such a star, if on Earth, would weigh six thousand pounds. The enormous pressure, accompanied by loss of heat and circulating energy, has resulted in bringing the orbits of the basic material units closer and closer together until they now closely approach the status of electronic condensation. This process of cooling and contraction may continue to the limiting and critical explosion point of ultimatonic condensation.
P459:1, 41:3.7 Most of the giant suns are relatively young; most of the dwarf stars are old, but not all. The collisional dwarfs may be very young and may glow with an intense white light, never having known an initial red stage of youthful shining. Both very young and very old suns usually shine with a reddish glow. The yellow tinge indicates moderate youth or approaching old age, but the brilliant white light signifies robust and extended adult life.
P459:2, 41:3.8 While all adolescent suns do not pass through a pulsating stage, at least not visibly, when looking out into space you may observe many of these younger stars whose gigantic respiratory heaves require from two to seven days to complete a cycle. Our own sun still carries a diminishing legacy of the mighty upswellings of its younger days, but the period has lengthened from the former three and one-half day pulsations to the present eleven and one-half year sunspot cycles.
P459:3, 41:3.9 Stellar variables have numerous origins. In some double stars the tides caused by rapidly changing distances as the two bodies swing around their orbits also occasion periodic fluctuations of light. These gravity variations produce regular and recurrent flares, just as the capture of meteors by the accretion of energy-material at the surface would result in a comparatively sudden flash of light that would speedily recede to normal brightness for that sun. Sometimes a sun will capture a stream of meteors in a line of lessened gravity opposition, and occasionally collisions cause stellar flare-ups, but the majority of such phenomena are wholly due to internal fluctuations.
P459:4, 41:3.10 In one group of variable stars the period of light fluctuation is directly dependent on luminosity, and knowledge of this fact enables astronomers to utilize such suns as universe lighthouses or accurate measuring points for the further exploration of distant star clusters. By this technique it is possible to measure stellar distances most precisely up to more than one million light-years. Better methods of space measurement and improved telescopic technique will allow us to r
ecognize several of these immense sectors as enormous and fairly symmetrical star clusters.
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Chapter 14: Section 2.
Sun Density
P459:5, 41:4.1 The mass of our sun, according to physicists, is about two octillion (2 x 10^27) tons. It now exists about halfway between the densest and the most diffuse stars, having about one and one-half times the density of water. But our sun is neither a liquid nor a solid -- it is gaseous -- and this is true notwithstanding the difficulty of explaining how gaseous matter can attain this and even much greater densities.
P459:6, 41:4.2 Gaseous, liquid, and solid states are matters of atomic-molecular relationships, but density is a relationship of space and mass. Density varies directly with the quantity of mass in space and inversely with the amount of space in mass, the space between the central cores of matter and the particles that whirl around these centers as well as the space within such material particles.
P459:7, 41:4.3 Cooling stars can be physically gaseous and tremendously dense at the same time. Many people are not familiar with the solar super-gases, but these and other unusual forms of matter explain how even nonsolid suns can attain a density equal to iron -- about the same as Earth -- and yet be in a highly heated gaseous state and continue to function as suns. The atoms in these dense super-gases are exceptionally small; they contain few electrons. Such suns have also largely lost their free ultimatonic stores of energy.
P460:1, 41:4.4 One of our near-by suns, which started life with about the same mass as ours, has now contracted almost to the size of Earth, having become sixty thousand times as dense as our sun. The weight of this hot-cold gaseous-solid is about one ton per cubic inch. And still this sun shines with a faint reddish glow, the senile glimmer of a dying monarch of light.
P460:2, 41:4.5 Most of the suns, however, are not so dense. One of your nearer neighbors has a density exactly equal to that of our atmosphere at sea level. If you were in the interior of this sun, you would be unable to discern anything. And temperature permitting, you could penetrate the majority of the suns which twinkle in the night sky and notice no more matter than you perceive in the air of your earthly living rooms.
P460:3, 41:4.6 The massive sun of Veluntia, one of the largest in Orvonton, has a density only one one-thousandth that of Earth's atmosphere. Were it in composition similar to your atmosphere and not superheated, it would be such a vacuum that human beings would speedily suffocate if they were in or on it.
P460:4, 41:4.7 Another of the Orvonton giants now has a surface temperature a trifle under three thousand degrees. Its diameter is over three hundred million miles -- ample room to accommodate our sun and the present orbit of the earth. And yet, for all this enormous size, over forty million times that of our sun, its mass is only about thirty times greater. These enormous suns have an extending fringe that reaches almost from one to the other.
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