The United Jesusonians: UB Related

WORDS TO LIVE BY...

by Jesus (The Urantia Book)

1. If you truly want to find God, that desire is in itself evidence that you have already found him.

2. Become interested in your fellows; learn how to love them and watch for the opportunity to do something for them which you are sure they want done.

3. It is a marvelous and transforming experience to become the living channel of spiritual light to the mortal who sits in spiritual darkness.

4. To become acquainted with one's brothers and sisters, to know their problems and to learn to love them, is the supreme experience of living.

5. The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner.

6. Everything must await the coming of its time.

7. You may be surrounded with small enemies and be retarded by many obstacles, but the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side.

8. "Be brave of heart as well as of hand. Dare to do justice and be big enough to show mercy. Compel your lower nature to obey your higher nature as you obey your superiors. Revere goodness and exalt truth. Choose the beautiful in place of the ugly. Love your fellows and reach out for God with a whole heart, for God is your Father in heaven."

9. You cannot reveal God to those who do not seek for him; you cannot lead unwilling souls into the joys of salvation.

10. Mercy ministry is always the work of the individual, but justice punishment is the function of the social, governmental, or universe administrative groups.

11. Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from another, before God and in the spiritual world all mortals stand on an equal footing. There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire to do his will and those who do not.

12. "Give the milk of truth to those who are babes in spiritual perception. In your living and loving ministry serve spiritual food in attractive form and suited to the capacity of receptivity of each of your inquirers."

13. Unless you seek entrance into the kingdom with the faith and trusting dependence of a little child, you shall in no wise gain admission.

14. For has not the Father said of his children of the world, `It is my will that they should eventually be perfect, even as I am perfect.'

15. If you would but believe that my Father loves you with an infinite love, then you are in the kingdom of God.

16. Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. And whatsoever you believe that I would do to men, do you also to them.

17. Do not forcibly resist injustice; put not your trust in the arm of the flesh. If your neighbor smites you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. Be willing to suffer injustice rather than to go to law among yourselves. In kindness and with mercy minister to all who are in distress and in need.

18. You are commissioned to save men, not to judge them.

19. Make not the mistake of trying to pluck a mote out of your brother's eye when there is a beam in your own eye. Having first cast the beam out of your own eye, you can the better see to cast the mote out of your brother's eye.

20. If you would guide others into the kingdom, you must yourselves walk in the clear light of living truth.

21. Present not that which is holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample your gems under foot and turn to rend you.

22. By their fruits you shall know them.

23. In gaining an entrance into the kingdom of heaven, it is the motive that counts. My Father looks into the hearts of men and judges by their inner longings and their sincere intentions.

24. You must judge your fellows by their deeds; the Father in heaven judges by the intent.

25. You shall return good for evil.

26. Do your good deeds in secret; when you give alms, let not the left hand know what the right hand does.

27. And when you pray, go apart by yourselves and use not vain repetitions and meaningless phrases.

28. "The lamp of the body is the eye; if, therefore, your eye is generous, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is selfish, the whole body will be filled with darkness. If the very light which is in you is turned to darkness, how great is that darkness!"

29. Seek first the kingdom of God, and when you have found entrance thereto, all things needful shall be added to you.

30. A wrong is not righted by vengeance. Do not make the mistake of fighting evil with its own weapons.

31. What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

32. Be as wise as serpents but as harmless as doves.

33. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

34. In the kingdom you must be righteous in order to do the work.

35. "The kingdom of heaven consists in these three essentials: first, recognition of the fact of the sovereignty of God; second, belief in the truth of sonship with God; and third, faith in the effectiveness of the supreme human desire to do the will of God—to be like God. And this is the good news of the gospel: that by faith every mortal may have all these essentials of salvation."

36. When God's will is your law, you are noble slave subjects; but when you believe in this new gospel of divine sonship, my Father's will becomes your will, and you are elevated to the high position of the free children of God, liberated sons of the kingdom.

37. It is not wise for the host to participate in the family troubles of his guests; a wise parent never takes sides in the petty quarrels of his own children.

38. Resist not evil treatment of one's personality, evil injury to one's feelings of personal dignity.

39. Lead men into the kingdom, and the great and living truths of the kingdom will presently drive out all serious error.

40. You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

41. The Paradise ascent is the supreme adventure of all time, the rugged achievement of eternity.

42. He who rules his own self is greater than he who captures a city.

43. Self-mastery is the measure of man's moral nature and the indicator of his spiritual development.

44. Salvation is by the regeneration of the spirit and not by the self-righteous deeds of the flesh.

45. Ask and it shall be given you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. For every one who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks the door of salvation will be opened.

46. Genuine faith will remove mountains of material difficulty which may chance to lie in the path of soul expansion and spiritual progress.

47. Hate is the shadow of fear; revenge the mask of cowardice.

48. I have come forth from the Father; if, therefore, you are ever in doubt as to what you would ask of the Father, ask in my name, and I will present your petition in accordance with your real needs and desires and in accordance with my Father's will.

49. True and genuine inward certainty does not in the least fear outward analysis, nor does truth resent honest criticism.

50. You should never forget that intolerance is the mask covering up the entertainment of secret doubts as to the trueness of one's belief.

51. No man is at any time disturbed by his neighbor's attitude when he has perfect confidence in the truth of that which he wholeheartedly believes.

52. Sincere men are unafraid of the critical examination of their true convictions and noble ideals.

53. While you cannot observe the divine spirit at work in your minds, there is a practical method of discovering the degree to which you have yielded the control of your soul powers to the teaching and guidance of this indwelling spirit of the heavenly Father, and that is the degree of your love for your fellow men.

54. The important thing is not the rapidity of your progress but rather its certainty. Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward. What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today.

55. Better by far to have a small but living and growing faith than to be possessed of a great intellect with its dead stores of worldly wisdom and spiritual unbelief.

56. Grow in grace by means of that living faith which grasps the fact that you are the sons of God while at the same time it recognizes every man as a brother.

57. Evil is the unconscious or unintended transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Evil is likewise the measure of the imperfectness of obedience to the Father's will.

58. Sin is the conscious, knowing, and deliberate transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Sin is the measure of unwillingness to be divinely led and spiritually directed.

59. Iniquity is the willful, determined, and persistent transgression of the divine law, the Father's will. Iniquity is the measure of the continued rejection of the Father's loving plan of personality survival and the Sons' merciful ministry of salvation.

60. Do you not comprehend that God dwells within you, that he has become what you are that he may make you what he is!

61. Anger indicates your lack of tolerant brotherly love plus your lack of self-respect and self-control. Anger depletes the health, debases the mind, and handicaps the spirit teacher of man's soul.

62. Let your hearts be so dominated by love that your spirit guide will have little trouble in delivering you from the tendency to give vent to those outbursts of animal anger which are inconsistent with the status of divine sonship.

63. Seek not, then, for false peace and transient joy but rather for the assurance of faith and the sureties of divine sonship which yield composure, contentment, and supreme joy in the spirit.

64. The goodness of God leads to repentance; the beneficence of God leads to service; the mercy of God leads to salvation; while the love of God leads to intelligent and freehearted worship.

65. Love God and learn to do his will, for that is the highest privilege of the liberated sons of God.

66. You do well to be meek before God and self-controlled before men, but let your meekness be of spiritual origin and not the self- deceptive display of a self-conscious sense of self-righteous superiority.

67. By faith you are justified; by faith are you saved; and by this same faith are you eternally advanced in the way of progressive and divine perfection.

68. You cannot buy salvation; you cannot earn righteousness. Salvation is the gift of God, and righteousness is the natural fruit of the spirit-born life of sonship in the kingdom.

69. You are not to be saved because you live a righteous life; rather is it that you live a righteous life because you have already been saved, have recognized sonship as the gift of God and service in the kingdom as the supreme delight of life on earth.

70. To him who has shall be given more, while from him who has not shall be taken away even that which he thinks he has.

71. It is not that which enters into the mouth that spiritually defiles the man, but rather that which proceeds out of the mouth and from the heart.

72. Be of good cheer!

73. My kingdom is founded on love, proclaimed in mercy, and established by unselfish service.

74. In all that you do, become not one-sided and overspecialized.

75. If you, by truth co-ordination, learn to exemplify in your lives this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your fellow men will then seek after you that they may gain what you have so acquired.

76. The measure wherewith truth seekers are drawn to you represents the measure of your truth endowment, your righteousness.

77. The extent to which you have to go with your message to the people is, in a way, the measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the truth-co-ordinated life.

78. Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of my brethren, you did it to me.

79. The religion of the spirit leaves you forever free to follow the truth wherever the leadings of the spirit may take you.

80. Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will.

81. All things are sacred in the lives of those who are spirit led; that is, subordinated to truth, ennobled by love, dominated by mercy, and restrained by fairness— justice.

82. Divine truth must not be discounted because the channel of its bestowal is apparently human.

83. It is not so important that you should know about the fact of God as that you should increasingly grow in the ability to feel the presence of God.

84. When you once begin to find God in your soul, presently you will begin to discover him in other men's souls and eventually in all the creatures and creations of a mighty universe.

85. My Father will ever respond to the faintest flicker of faith.

86. Do not allow yourselves to become blinded by prejudice and paralyzed by fear.

87. The old and the inferior will be forgotten in the love for the new and the superior.

88. It is not the purpose of true religion merely to bring peace but rather to insure progress.

89. He who has seen me has seen the Father.

90. For whosoever would save his life selfishly, shall lose it, but whosoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall save it.

91. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

92. I declare that there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety and nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

93. The Father in heaven loves his children, and therefore should you learn to love one another; the Father in heaven forgives you your sins; therefore should you learn to forgive one another.

94. Freely you have received the good things of the kingdom; therefore freely give to your fellows on earth.

95. Behold, I stand at the door and knock, and if any man will open, I will come in.

96. Nothing which human nature has touched can be regarded as infallible.

97. Love your neighbor as yourself.

98. I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.

99. Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am true and loyal, and you shall find spiritual rest for your souls.

100. The teacher of truth attracts only those who hunger for the truth and who thirst for righteousness.

101. It is not a sin to have honorable wealth; but it is a sin if you convert the wealth of material possessions into treasures which may absorb your interests and divert your affections from devotion to the spiritual pursuits of the kingdom.

102. If you dedicate your lives to the work of the kingdom, all your real needs shall be supplied. Seek the greater thing, and the lesser will be found therein; ask for the heavenly, and the earthly shall be included. The shadow is certain to follow the substance.

103. Peace on earth will not come until all are willing to believe and enter into their glorious inheritance of sonship with God.

104. Even if the door to the way of life is narrow, it is wide enough to admit all who sincerely seek to enter, for I am that door. And the Son will never refuse entrance to any child of the universe who, by faith, seeks to find the Father through the Son.

105. Many who are first will be last, and those who are last will many times be first.

106. I am the door, I am the new and living way, and whosoever wills may enter to embark upon the endless truth-search for eternal life.

107. The Father causes his rain to fall on the just and the unjust; the sun likewise shines on the righteous and the unrighteous.

108. In the matter of sickness and health, you should know that these bodily states are the result of material causes; health is not the smile of heaven, neither is affliction the frown of God.

109. When it comes to the bestowal of spiritual gifts, the Father is limited by man's capacity for receiving these divine endowments. Although the Father is no respecter of persons, in the bestowal of spiritual gifts he is limited by man's faith and by his willingness always to abide by the Father's will.

110. Forget not, every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, while he who truly humbles himself shall be exalted.

111. You see, then, that the Father gives salvation to the children of men, and this salvation is a free gift to all who have the faith to receive sonship in the divine family. There is nothing man can do to earn this salvation.

112. Works of self-righteousness cannot buy the favor of God, and much praying in public will not atone for lack of living faith in the heart. Men you may deceive by your outward service, but God looks into your souls.

113. Marriage is honorable and is to be desired by all men. The fact that the Son of Man pursues his earth mission alone is in no way a reflection on the desirability of marriage.

114. It is the divine will that men and women should find their highest service and consequent joy in the establishment of homes for the reception and training of children, in the creation of whom these parents become copartners with the Makers of heaven and earth.

115. Divine forgiveness is inevitable; it is inherent and inalienable in God's infinite understanding, in his perfect knowledge of all that concerns the mistaken judgment and erroneous choosing of the child. Divine justice is so eternally fair that it unfailingly embodies understanding mercy.

116. When a wise man understands the inner impulses of his fellows, he will love them. And when you love your brother, you have already forgiven him. This capacity to understand man's nature and forgive his apparent wrongdoing is Godlike.

117. Your inability or unwillingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love.

118. Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life. It is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service, and perfected in wisdom.

119. He who selfishly loves his life stands in danger of losing it; but he who is willing to lay down his life for my sake and the gospel's shall enjoy a more abundant existence on earth and in heaven, life eternal.

120. He who walks in the darkness knows not where he goes; but if you will choose to walk in the light, you shall all indeed become liberated sons of God.

121. Be patient! doubt not that this gospel of the kingdom will triumph over all enemies and, eventually, be proclaimed to all nations.

122. The downfall of nations, the crash of empires, the destruction of the unbelieving Jews, the end of an age, even the end of the world, what have these things to do with one who believes this gospel, and who has hid his life in the surety of the eternal kingdom?

123. Kingdom builders, the accredited citizens of the heavenly worlds, are not to be disturbed by temporal upheavals or perturbed by terrestrial cataclysms. What does it matter to you who believe this gospel of the kingdom if nations overturn, the age ends, or all things visible crash, since you know that your life is the gift of the Son, and that it is eternally secure in the Father?

124. When you have by faith once established yourself as a son of God, nothing else matters as regards the surety of survival.

125. My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth. You who know these truths must yield the increase of the fruits of the spirit and manifest a growing devotion to the unselfish service of your fellow servants.

126. Those who know the gospel only in the mind, and who have not experienced it in the heart, cannot be depended upon for support when real trouble comes.

127. When I invite you to love one another, even as I have loved you, I hold up before you the supreme measure of true affection, for greater love can no man have than this: that he will lay down his life for his friends.

128. If you will only love one another as I am loving you, you shall be my friends, and I will ever speak to you of that which the Father reveals to me.

129. I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. I am the vine, and you are the branches.

130. You must abide in me, and I in you; the branch will die if it is separated from the vine. As the branch cannot bear fruit except it abides in the vine, so neither can you yield the fruits of loving service except you abide in me.

131. If you abide in me and my words live in you, you will be able to commune freely with me, and then can my living spirit so infuse you that you may ask whatsoever my spirit wills and do all this with the assurance that the Father will grant us our petition.

132. You are in this world, but your lives are not to be worldlike.

133. No man goes to the Father except through me. All who find the Father, first find me.

134. Forget not that I will stop at nothing to restore self-respect to those who have lost it, and who really desire to regain it.

135. Life in the Father's eternal creation is not an endless rest of idleness and selfish ease but rather a ceaseless progression in grace, truth, and glory.

136. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

137 You will learn to love your brethren more when you first learn to love their Father in heaven more, and after you have become truly more interested in their welfare in time and in eternity. And all such human interest is fostered by understanding sympathy, unselfish service, and unstinted forgiveness.

138. Our kingdom is a realm of order, and where two or more will creatures act in co-operation, there is always provided the authority of leadership.

139. You all know that we have one Father in heaven, and that there is but one gospel of the kingdom—the good news of the gift of eternal life which men receive by faith.

140. As you rejoice in your loyalty to the gospel, pray the Father of truth to shed abroad in your hearts a new and greater love for your brethren.

141. You are all the children of light; therefore stumble not into the misunderstanding entanglements of mortal suspicion and human intolerance.

142. As I have revealed the Father, so shall you reveal the divine love, not merely with words, but in your daily living.

143. Let faith reveal your light to the world; let the revelation of truth open the eyes blinded by tradition; let your loving service effectually destroy the prejudice engendered by ignorance.

144. By so drawing close to your fellow men in understanding sympathy and with unselfish devotion, you will lead them into a saving knowledge of the Father's love.

145. It is the love of God that impels men to seek salvation. Love is the ancestor of all spiritual goodness, the essence of the true and the beautiful.

146. Do not neglect to minister to the weak, the poor, and the young.

147. Let experience teach you the value of meditation and the power of intelligent reflection.

148. It is your faith that saves your souls. Salvation is the gift of God to all who believe they are his sons.

149. But be not deceived; while salvation is the free gift of God and is bestowed upon all who accept it by faith, there follows the experience of bearing the fruits of this spirit life as it is lived in the flesh.

150. The fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace.

151. You may enter the kingdom as a child, but the Father requires that you grow up, by grace, to the full stature of spiritual adulthood.

152. There is always joy in the presence of the angels of heaven over one sinner who repents and returns to the Father's fold.

153. Let every man make sure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature, which is thus to transform the mortal mind and then, in association with that re-created mind, is to achieve the evolvement of the soul of immortal destiny.

154. Your spirit nature—the jointly created soul—is a living growth, but the mind and morals of the individual are the soil from which these higher manifestations of human development and divine destiny must spring.

155. I have come to show you that, while you are seeking to find God, God is likewise seeking to find you.

156. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted.

157. Take lessons from those who make friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, and likewise so conduct your lives that you make eternal friendship with the forces of righteousness in order that, when all things earthly fail, you shall be joyfully received into the eternal habitations.

158. I affirm that he who is faithful in little will also be faithful in much, while he who is unrighteous in little will also be unrighteous in much.

159. You cannot stand still in the affairs of the eternal kingdom. My Father requires all his children to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the truth.

160. Again I say there is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over the ninety and nine just persons who need no repentance.

161. In the time of testing, a man's soul is revealed; trial discloses what really is in the heart.

AN INTRODUCTION TO


P R I N C I P I A

M E T A P H O R I A


A UNIFIED REALITY THEORY (URT)


by Alexander Charles Wall


(c) Copyright 2001-2007 Omega Art and Music



PUBLISHING NOTE: For now anyone who wants to, can use this theory and republish or reproduce it in any way they choose. My request is that they include the whole theory as an appendix of reference to whatever points may be taken out of context.



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INTRODUCTION


There are several concepts I would like to present in this theory that I believe are novel approaches to the discussions on and attempts to blend physical and metaphysical reality. To many scientists there is no reason for ever discussing metaphysics short of its value to faith-based
religion. In my opinion this one of the biggest ways that science is currently shooting itself in the foot. On the other side of the coin, many strict religionists discount scientific theories because of science's dismissal of non-physical reality as "fantasy" and the existence of God as "unprovable".

As we all can attest to, compromise is a quality not often seen in debate. And, polarization is often the natural state in many of our earthly discussions. Also, as we Urantians should know, there is but ONE Ultimate Reality. Therefore, it deeply frustrates some of us that dialog is so often cut short by summary and literal ignorance. It is in recognition of these limitations that I now climb out onto the bending limb of
theoretical and logical "persuasion" to try and make a case for a more profound kind of compromise.

Though many folks will forget that I've said this so many times already, I will say it again: I am NOT attempting to present "revelatory"
information, nor do I believe that mine is the "last word", in any sense, or on any level. This theory is just that, a "theory". It should only be taken as seriously as it is proportionally valuable to YOU, the reader, and to your already-established belief systems.

If it is WHOLLY incompatible with what you've learned through honest and relatively objective truth-seeking, then, by all means, reject it
immediately. But if you have not closed all the doors already to the introduction of new concepts and the potential of expanding your mental library, please read the following with the curiosity of a child. For, it is within the spirit of this same child-like state of wonder, that I come to you with these possibilities.

The other big point I want to make here is that I will be using MY OWN belief system as an EXAMPLE of how anyone can overlay THEIR OWN belief system across the graphical relationships that I will be illustrating. It it completely NOT my intention to proselytize my personal religion. That would be oxymoronic (as well as just moronic).

I STRICTLY believe that each of you should develop your own personal religions (dare I say, even if that includes going to church, mosque, temple, etc., on a regular basis).

I have used the "sense"/"voice" (if you will) of my own Thought
Adjuster/Controller to help me build my own "religion" out of the creme d la creme of the most highly inspired sacred texts (revealed or otherwise) and the most current theories of science. I have centered this quest around the deep and vast cosmology presented in the Urantia Papers, specifically, and the Fifth Epochal Revelation, more generally.

As unlikely as it may be, if you find yourself tempted to adopt every exact,
personal point of view, presented from my religion, then I will have utterly failed in my efforts to have you understand my motivation for providing my personal religious stand-point as an example for how to use my theory. The structures and models to follow are for everyone. They are NOT platforms to present my own beliefs.

A person who completely disagrees with my religious or scientific views should still be able to make full use of the graphic and conceptual systems I will be proposing. This is very, very important to understand.

For the sake of some kind of simplicity, I will try to address all representative problems within the context of the following four, newly introduced, concepts:


I. Reality Scaffolding


II. The Grand Relationship


III. Metaphorics and Metaphorical Geometry


IV. Energy Duality


*** PARTS I AND II ***


I. Reality Scaffolding


This is a graphic way of summing up a combination of physical and
non-physical reality. It is but ONE WAY of showing a fairly smooth gradient (or scale) of reference frames. This model looks very much like a ladder laying on its side, and viewed flat-on, so that each rung secures the top to the bottom, at an apparent 90 degree angle, each space between rungs looks like a rectangle, and with an open space on either end of the ladder. Each rung would be a separator between reality reference frames.


Here is a diagram for some examples of Reality Scaffolding. Notice the "S" and "L". They stand for "Singularity" (usually presented in black) and "Luminescence" (usually presented in yellow). These two are the figurative yin and yang of energy. See IV. The Duality of Energy, below for more information on these "two sides to the same disc".

Colors play a big part in this URT. They help you keep track of what your looking at without having to read just another "word" on the page. My goals for presentation are always threefold, (1) SIMPLIFY, (2) ABBREVIATE, and (3) BE CONSISTENT. I don't always live up to these, but that's why they are GOALS and not, accomplishments of the theory.

It is important when presenting this theory to try to use these color schemes EVERY time. It would be very frustrating for a reader to sit there looking at two gray circles, wondering what the difference is. COLOR is everything in these diagrams.





This horizontal series of frames (points of physical and metaphysical view) would have as many or as few as YOUR PERSONAL THEORY OR RELIGION might require. There are rules for how the distribution of "frames" should be set up though. This isn't a free-for-all! :)

Rules for Scaffolding

I.1 Spaces along the length of this scaffolding must be in groups of three space-like or force-like frames (usually presented in violet), with one time-like frame (usually presented in red)--which we will later see as also mind-like--separating each group of three space dimensions (usually presented in blue).


So, as they apply to my personal belief system, the first 12 frames would be
dimensional (each dimension is assumed to be thought of as a vector running at 90 degrees to all other dimensions). For a quick overview of dimensionality and for a better understanding of dimensions OVER 3-D, please watch Carl Sagan's "Flat Land" explanation in this video:


Flat Land


This scaffolding would run (from left to right) as: L, H, D, T, SL, SH, SD, Lambda (Reflectivity), HL, HH, HD, and Omega--a singularity actually embedded in Nether Paradise. Omega is only significant as far as it exists in the context of its actions as nucleus of the Ultimaton.

Because each dimension is also an energy level, these 12 increase in energy ("energy" I am defining here as forms of "angular momentum" as we move from left to right). In this way "proceeding from the left to the right is exponential (f.e. as in 1 x 10^3, or 10 x 10 x 10, etc.), and from the right to the left is logarithmic (as in 1 x 10^-3, or 10 / 10 / 10, etc.).

Please recall that any one of the three space or force dimensions in a group can be exchanged with either of the other two. But if a static snapshot of these groups of 3 separated by 1 were to be viewed, it would "show" actual levels, not just 3 equal parts. The same is true with the Ultimaton's levels, for they are both (Scaffolding {frames 1-12} and Ultimaton, when it is grouped with others {levels 1-12}) EXACTLY the same thing.


I.2 Folding Points

I.2.1 Primary Folding Points - But it doesn't end with frame 12. This is where it gets interesting. The first 7 of the previously mentioned frames are one side of Universal Symmetry (being only loosely related to the super symmetry of String Theory). Frame 8 (Reflectivity) is what I call a folding point". If you were to draw out a row of 15 rectangles, it could be folded at the 8th. and have 7 1/2 on either side--like a reflection. And the following seven could be overlaid upon the previous 7, and so on. We now begin to see why frame 8 is called "Reflectivy".

The seven frames after frame 8 can be thought of (only in the context of this folding) as being roughly equal to the the first seven in metaphoric weight (See III. Metaphorics and Metaphorical Geometry, below).

Seven Absolutes, are labeled as follows: UNQ, DEI, UNI, FPS (First Physical Source another term for "Paradise"), TSC, SSC, and FSC. So, frame 9-11 can be thought of as either hyper space or as the first three Absolutes
(potentiality). Frame 12 is really, Paradise either way. And frames 13-15 are the last three Absolutes (actuality).

The next fold is at frame 16. The "set" (what I call a set of seven Scaffolding frames, in between primary fold frames) following frame 16 represent the power-potentials of the Seven Master Spirits. Frames 17-23 are: UFA, ESO, ISP, FSO, FSP, SSP, FSS. In this particular case, what is usually considered a time-like frame (20), is simply left without any red in it.

I.2.2 Secondary Folding Points - The two secondary points where the Reality Scaffolding can be folded are at each time-like dimension, below the 12th. frame. In other words, (Energy Level I) 1-3 fold at 4, and can be overlaid upon (Energy Level 2) 5-7; 5-7 can be folded at 8 and be overlaid upon (Energy Level III) 9-11. See the analogies of these energy levels in the Ultimaton Diagram (seen as I, II, and III), below.


* Folding is a means of expressing the fact that certain energy levels AND metaphoric weights can be thought of as being superimposed over each other.


I.3 Rough Ends


Because this is a work in progress, I've had extraordinary trouble integrating biological life, and so-called "unrevealed" aspects of Reality into the scaffolding.

My sense is that there is a "dimension zero" in which all biological life (I will refer to it as "animated matter") could be placed at the far left side of the Scaffolding. This is really just a cop out, in lieu of a better placement for "life".

Similarly, there are many unrevealed aspects and beings referred to, but not elaborated about in the UB. There are intervening phenomena between the sub-Absolute frames and the Absolutes. When we are able to learn more about these phenomena, we may find ourselves adding in more Reality Frames to the Scaffolding. Suffice it to say that, at this point, I am placing them all (inaccurately) at either end of the Scaffolding.

The point about "rough ends" is that I leave the Scaffolding literally, "open-ended" in order to allow future expansion of the over-all concept. As a rule, our contemplations about Reality should always leave room for more. We are told that as much as we will have learned about reality, even long after meeting the Universal Father, He will always have an additional and INFINITE amount more to show us. This astounds me!

For now I am focusing on the 23 frames that I have mentioned already, and leave discussion of any new frames to future seminars.


I.4 Loopy Tools

Regardless, no matter how many or few frames (as we will see), they will form the "tension" layer between the two sides of Energy Duality. Imagine having the 23-frame Reality Scaffolding I have described above, on a piece of paper. It would look like a horizontal strip. Now you cut the strip out with scissors, and then attach the two ends to each other with scotch tape, forming a loop. This represents the periphery of all reality (as best we can describe it).

This "loop" can be made with any number of frames, ASSUMING that all other frames have been superimposed upon the ones you've decided to display in your loop. For example I could loop only frames 1-7 if I was Einstein and had just accepted a maximum of seven dimensions. Or I could loop only frames 1-11 if I was a string theorist who didn't believe in God. Or I could loop only frames 9-23, if I wanted to express pre and post-matter ideas... Do you see? This theory is made for anybody's use.

Frankly, my hope is that, armed with this non-violent, and commonly understood TOOL (the Reality Scaffolding), people with the most sensible and comprehensive theories will influence other to be more careful in modeling their own realities, graphically.

As we will eventually see, once the weights of metaphorics are entered into the model there will be a fairly good chance that debates about reality (which is both physical and non-physical) will have common rules, and even more importantly, hopefully, a broader common ground for
discussion.

I cannot think of a belief system that doesn't have some aspects which could be entered into this Scaffolding model. Even if you didn't believe in anything but empty space, you would still have to acknowledge that frames 1-3 can make a loop. Is this beginning to make sense yet? A loop cannot be made with less than three frames. After all, what would be the use of a Scaffolding at that point.


II. The Grand Relationship


It occurred to me one day, while viewing a diagram of the Ultimaton, next to a diagram of the Central Universe, how very similar they appear. If we are to overlay one upon the other, we can see, still, Paradise as a nucleus, the three surrounding circuits (that of the 21 Sacred Spheres), as being like the three hyper space levels of the Ultimaton, the
intervening space between Paradise and the 7 Havona cicuits as
Reflectivity, and the 7 Havona circuits themselves, as the outer 7 shells and fields of the Ultimaton. This may be simple coincidence but I am CHOSING to believe that it means VERY MUCH MORE.


II.1 Structure of the Central Universe


I'm not going to give a quote from the UB for this because we all know this Central Universe stuff pretty well. Eventually I'll be providing some measurements for different aspects of the Central Universe. And I will introduce a (possibly-feeble) argument for using the Central Universe model as presented in the UB as way of finding out how to study the Ultimaton.

For any new readers here is a refresher about the Central Universe. The Central and Divine Universe


And here is a crude diagram showing the circuits of the Central Universe, with Paradise at its nucleus, "the geographic center of infinity".





Here is Mark Underwood's recent discover of the number of worlds in each Havona Circuit...





II.2 Structure of the Ultimaton


Here is a diagram of the Ultimaton...





It is important when viewing the above diagram, that we remember it is being presented all alone there. I'll bet that Ultimatons are hardly ever alone (except, as the UB says, in the deepest reaches of space). So, when viewed alone, "L" (for example) is just a name for the FIELD that would connect the lonely Ultimaton with the "L" fields of other Ultimatons. It is their work TOGETHER that FORMS dimensions, strings, branes (higher dimensional membranes), and basically all space-time and morontia matter.

The following is a two-part video from the Atlas Experiment at CERN.

First some info from their site.
CERN Home Page

"CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the world's largest particle physics centre. It sits astride the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva.

CERN is a laboratory where scientists unite to study the building blocks of matter and the forces that hold them together. CERN exists primarily to provide them with the necessary tools. These are accelerators, which accelerate particles to almost the speed of light and detectors to make the particles visible."

It is possible that they might discover evidence for the Ultimaton. This video also dips into current particle theory, discussing quarks, leptons, bosons, etc..

Altas Experiment Part 1
Atlas Experiment Part 2


[It might be interesting to note that CERN ran the first internet server ever. They say it's "Where the web was born".]

If I were designing a realm of space-time to be based upon the central universe, I would fill that space time with a near infinite amount of "little central universes", and I would name them, "Ultimatons", or maybe "Freddies". :)

Where Havona is absolute in "quality", the experiential realm of space and time has the potential to become absolute in "quantity".

Bill Sadler called this potential the "Cosmos Infinite". It was
speculated by Sadler that the whole Master universe can someday (in the ages of God The Absolute) be completely absolute in both quality and quantity, while also having balanced experiential beings and things with existential beings and things.

So, we might look at some of the distances, sizes, and amounts describing Havona as being a sub-revelation about the architecture of the Ultimaton. Many people will say that I'm stretching things, but my assumptions on this point seem to be yielding a clearer and more consistent theory than if I were to not include them. So I will take the risk.

The Grand Relationship was thought up long before I began drawing
conclusions about the Ultimaton and its measurements. While studying hyper-spherical ideas (in this case, "hyper" is unrelated to the "hyper space" talked about above), I read some interesting views from non-UB readers about spherical and hyper-spherical geometry.

Shortly after learning that Kaluza and Klein had worked out that there might be a compactified or enfolded dimension ("The Fifth Dimension") "inside" the four we recognize, Einstein acknowledged that there might be even more than that. He vacillated about the total number of dimensions, frequently settling on the number "7". There was speculation that in the early moments after the "big bang" (a theory that we don't subscribe to, but has allowed, co-incidentally, a greater overall understanding of energy levels and current particle theory, than if it had not been introduced), that all 7 dimensions were of equal size and each shared the role of space function AND time function.

As the universe cooled (so the legend goes), for some reason, three of these
dimension curled themselves up within the confines of a now-differentiated time dimension (while still keeping their space-like attributes), leaving the three common, macro dimensions we all know and love to function as "visible" space.

Naturally, theorists reasoned, outside of time and space the 7
original dimensions still exist. But inside time and space only the 4-D matter was visible and experience-able.

So, hyper-spherical geometry is like two spherical universes existing simultaneously, meshed together, one was called the "universe" the other, the "antiverse". If a person were looking at the universe from the perspective of the antiverse they would see us utilizing all the things in our 4-D world. And, if someone from the universe were actually able to conceptually understand what the 7-D antiverse "looks" like they would see...well...amazing things!

The notion of perspective is very important to understanding metaphorics.

Here is the (incomplete) diagram showing the relationships between "universe" and "antiverse", partially showing the example above, and partially showing the colors of the URT.





Here, I have replaced the argument of 4:7 geometry that you might find in string theory with 1:4:7, as it flows back and forth across the
Reflectivity frame, making the universe and antiverse different
expressions of the same geometry. I will try to present a better diagram for this at some point. I really wanted the time dimension to show separately from the (blue) space dimensions, and make what's showing as red now, into violet, to partially represent the force of the pre-matter sphere (frames 9-12, or Ultimatonic fields 9-12), thus making 1:3:1:7 ratios.

That the nice thing about metaphoric geometry, with a few changes you can impart a large amount of information.

One of the confusing aspects of the Grand Relationship is that while from our perspective, all other dimensions exists inside our familiar 4, to the perspective of a Havona native, our 4 exist on the inside of their 8! Even though the UB says time and space "outside" the Central Universe, from a PARTICLE'S standpoint, space and time are simply part of Havona, at the same time that we paradoxically know that the Paradise Creator Sons and Spirits "went out" into space to set up their Local Universes. And every ultimaton acting in space and time are actually little "windows" where eternity (if you will) can peer "into" our superuniverses.

The Grand Relationship is a paradox, but necessary to understand
nonetheless.

Think of the compound lens effect in the eye of a fly. Each tiny lens might be thought of as an Ultimaton. When we put ourselves in the fuzzy insect's eye, Havona is on the outside looking in through our Ultimatons at us, and we are on this inside looking out. But when we place Havona on the inside (as we are doing with the Ultimaton Structure), WE are looking in and apparently Havona is looking out.

The Grand Relationship says that because of the importance placed by the Universal Father upon experiential perfection, BOTH scenarios are valid, depending on which side of the "dark gravity bodies", surrounding the Central Universe, a being is on. There is a lot more to this concept, but this in only an introduction and I am not willing to spend more time on it, until we reach that section of the theory. IF we ever get that far.


APPENDIX A - STRUCTURE OF THE ULTIMATON


THE OUTER FIELDS - THE MACRO SPACE DIMENSIONS

(1) L = LENGTH--an energy field that takes care of the first dimension of macro space (our space).

(2) H = HEIGHT--an equal energy field that shifts with the first (L) and third (D), to create a potential for "material" macro space.

(3) D = DEPTH (or WIDTH) an equal and exchangeable energy field to be associated with the first two.

I think the Utlimatons, if you could actually view them, (which I
don't believe will be possible for thousands of years and research to come, if ever), might be something akin to a mass of frog eggs.

Have you seen them together in water? They have a see-through gel-like outer wall. If you separate one out from the group you see (or feel) this wall, but when you place it back among its brothers and sisters, the gel-like wall SEEMS to "disappear", yet each yoke, zygote, or
nucleus, stays safely separated from each other because of this
invisible gel.

I'm saying the first three energy fields of the Ultimaton do almost the exact same thing. But, the Ultimaton can actually spread and
contract this outer "gel" of space fields.

However, at any one time you would encounter three distinct fields operating, each in one of our 3 space dimensions, blending with the outer fields of all other Ultimatons.

"THE GAP" THE TIME DIMENSION

(4) T = TIME the next "dimension" is the one which provides the
lubrication of space time, and that we simply call "time". It is not a field. It is a "gap" an area between the "macro" space and "super" space dimensions. Information is exchanged across this (T) gap in
order to structure all the material universe's Utimatons (nearly)
simultaneously from the inside, and by Relativity's time frames on the outside.

I believe it is in this gap, that our consciousness gets to
participate in the physical reality around us (along with help from the Master Physical Controllers, Infinite Spirit, etc.).

THE MID-SHELLS - THE SUPER SPACE DIMENSIONS

(5) SL = SUPER LENGTH after crossing over the "time dimension gap" (T) we enter into the so-called "5th. dimension". In a similar way, it, is the first "super spatial" dimension of the morontia world. And it, with the two dimensions that follow (HH and HD), are more "shell-like" than "field-like", and have equal energy to each other, but still
exchange places.

(6) SH = SUPER HEIGHT is just like the 5th. and exchanging itself with SL and SD, as I've said.

(7) SD = SUPER DEPTH (Ibid).

These three above super space dimensions are probably what we would call "active in the morontia realms". To get to these more inner,
morontia dimensions, you would have to find a way to "collapse" the waves of the outer, macro space dimensions, taking action through the FIRST time dimension (4), which would itself become non-functioning at that point. And then you would literally have a morontia Ultimaton.

These are the compactified dimensions mentioned by Kaluza and Klein's work. They are enfolded when the outer fields of the Ultimaton are functioning (as standard matter). And they "unfurl" (so to speak) when the outer fields are collapsed, creating morontia matter.

Moving past the 7th. layer (or shell) we pass into the time-like,
Reflectivity dimension.

(8) ^ = REFLECTIVITY I use a Kappa as a symbol for this "time" dimension.

This is neither a gap, a shell, or a field. In fact I don't know what to call it other than a "time-space-to-eternity-space" conduit. It is through this dimension that all future and past events can be viewed (or possibly traveled to?). It is the last stop before the "hyper
space", more Spirit-based, energies.

THE INNER "PARTS" - THE HYPER SPACE DIMENSIONS

(9) HL = HYPER LENGTH Who knows what kind of "stuff" this is? But it is able to make exotic Central Universe-type things. And it probably does the exchanging of itself with the next two dimensions, just as the super and macro space realms behave, but at unheard of energy levels.

(10) HL = HYPER HEIGHT (Ibid.)

(11) HD = HYPER DEPTH (Ibid.)

This Ultimatonic model, in an extremely flimsy way, MIGHT explain some of string theory's relationship to UB matter theory.

But I believe there is a 12th. dimension...

PARADISE - SINGULARITY - THE NUCLEUS

(12) O = THE FIRST PHYSICAL SOURCE ("Paradise") I use Omega to
represent this central point (for obvious reasons).

All I can say about the nucleus is that it, and the hyper space
"parts" (9-11), and Reflectivity (8) surrounding it, are not located (physically) WITH the rest of the Ultimaton. But they are "on reserve" and able to influence, physically, that "place" where the present
Ultimaton's outer 7 dimensions act. That place ("place" being time and space) of the Ultimaton interacts with our space-time and morontia levels and is MEDIATED by these inner 5 dimensions (8-12). This is a little hard to understand.

Let's think of a frog egg analogy, what we would REALLY see if we were able to view Ultimatons in our world is only the interaction of the first 4 dimensions. So there would be no little black zygote showing inside the gel. The nuclei (of Ultimatons functioning in our familiar world) are actually located at Nether Paradise. So we would just
"see"/"feel" the gel.

Like a kite held down in our material world, and steered by an
invisible thread ("thread" being the information flowing from the
Reflective, hyper space, singularity-driven, nucleus, from N. Paradise to the material and morontial time and space levels we understand), the Ultimaton is one "perspective" (if you will) that Paradise has of the time space creations.


APPENDIX B - UPDATED MODEL OF ULTIMATON AS ALSO GRAVITON AND TRIATATON


Possible Update for the Model of the Ultimaton...


With the discussion on antigravity there is mention of "Triata" ... I would call an Ultimaton that has its
first two energy levels (as waves) collapsed, a "Triataton". What do you think? The UB says...

"In the central universe these physical systems are threefold
organizations known as triata. They are the superpower mother systems of the creations of time and space."

[UB fundamentalists should understand that I KNOW that "Triataton" is not an official UB word. I employ it as a term that can assist us non-revelators to more clearly understand some of the hints that the actual revelators gave. I'm not trying to "start a new theory", ONLY to confirm what the UB says, by simply using a made-up term. OK?? :)
I desperately hope this caveat gets me out of a lot of "he doesn't
even use UB ideas" misinterpretation over my intentions with this
little proposal. I present it ALL as a question, not a statement. PLEASE understand.]

So, perhaps what is called, in general, "Ultimaton", is actually the middle (more mixed matter and morontia) state of three ultimate
stages, each having different fields that present themselves in one of three ways: (1) collapsed, (2) dynamic or (3) static, depending on the physical arena of action:


[Note--Even though I call the following, "particles", they could be thought of in terms of wave equations as well. Numbers refer to
Diagrams (Figures 1 and 2, just below this table). And "Energy Level" here is meant to indicate one level of physical action, dominated by certain fields. IOW: Energy Level III is dominated by fields (or
frames) 9-12, Energy Level II is dominated by 5-8, and Energy Level I is dominated by 1-4. "Domination" does not necessarily mean the other Energy Levels are completely "submissive" (or inactive). There would be well-measured gradations and co-mingling between all Energy Levels.
Kinky, huh!? ;)]


TABLE: PHYSICAL ENERGY/MATTER MANIFESTATIONS


CENTRAL UNIVERSE ENERGY--TRIATA - PREMATTER - THREEFOLD

Energy Level III - Major Particle: "Triataton" ("Physical System") Scaffolding Frames or Ultimatonic fields; 1-8 collapsed, 9-12 dynamic.


SUPERUNIVERSE ENERGY--GRAVITA - MATTER - TWOFOLD

Energy Level II - Major Particle: "Ultimaton" (Matter/Morontia)
Scaffolding Frames or Ultimatonic fields; 1-8 dynamic, 9-12 static.

Energy Level I - Major Particle: "Graviton" ("Super Symmetry" Variety) Scaffolding Frames or Ultimatonic Fields; 1-4 dynamic (transmitting gravity like a "boson"), 5-12 static.

[Please See "Structure of the Ultimaton" diagram above (Appendix A), and "Reality Scaffolding" diagram below (Appendix C).]

1) Length

2) Height

3) Depth

4) Time

5) Super Length

6) Super Height

7) Super Depth

8) Lambda - Reflectivity

9) Hyper Length

10) Hyper Height

11) Hyper Depth

12) Omega - Singularity


Interestingly, in this model, the "graviton" of both non-UB science and my adaptation of UB science, would fit nicely together
conceptually. A big question in physics right now is "where are the gravitons?". We have flimsy little labs to try to pick up "gravity waves" which are simply too massive (in their wrongly--I
think--computed estimates) to be detected, even with a lab the size of the earth's orbit.

THEORETICAL CONCLUSION **Instead, maybe it is more likely that
so-called "gravitons" (as the crudest and most "materially"
influential, modifications of the Ultimaton) are simply
*proportionally* distributed throughout the thick layers of universe "ultimatons" in such a manor that their wave functions are homogeneous with all matter, and are therefore transfered on micro rather than macro scales, disallowing detection and fooling us into thinking that they are "radiated"?? The antigravitational abilities of the
Ultimaton (and Triataton) would fully mask a gravity transmitted in this way.**

Another important thing that I try to keep in mind is how influential the physical controllers, and other beings charged with the physical upkeep of the universes, are. I think that is often overlooked in both UB and non-UB discussions about physicality. THERE IS ALWAYS MIND INVOLVED. We should eventually delve into discussions of gravity (the different kinds and functions). But, I couldn't even just stick to antigravity in my discussion presented here! It is hard to not want to talk about everything all at once.

I do believe that the mention of the "physical systems" of the Central Universe being "the superpower mother systems" of the "creations of time and space", strongly suggests that the Ultimaton is the common link (though manifested differently) between all physical systems, except Paradise. "Absoluta" (in my model) would be the complete
collapse of all fields leaving only the static (stationary) Reality Frame 12; so...1-11 collapsed, 12 static. I don't believe you can call this "a bunch" of "Absolutons", because there is no individuation of particle in this one unique physical system (Paradise).


APPENDIX C - UPDATED REALITY SCAFFOLDING


Here is an updated image of the URT Reality Scaffolding.


On the far right is an initial model for Energy Duality.


ENERGY DUALITY
[Number IV - From the coming second part of the URT Introduction]


Notice the 21 frames, followed by frames 22 and 23, (1) Singularity (always black--denoted by "S") and (2) Luminescence (always
yellow--denoted by "L"), respectively.


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All 20 frames are equal in metaphoric weight to the 21st. and 22cnd. frames. The preceding 20 are the tension between S and L. In this way, and partially by referring to this UB quote:

UB "This is the primal concept of original reality: The Father
initiates and maintains Reality. The primal differentials of reality are the deified and the un-deified--the Deity Absolute and the
Unqualified Absolute. The primal relationship is the tension between them. This Father-initiated divinity-tension is perfectly resolved by, and eternalizes as, the Universal Absolute."

...Singularity can be associated with the Unqualified Absolute, and Luminescence can be associated by the Qualified Absolute. It is this pre-7-Absolute level that I'm referring to with S and L. It is their relationship, as pre-Universal, that I'm focusing on with the
"dualistic energy" concept.

The Scaffolding frames are the "tension" between these identical (but differently manifested) forms of the same original energy (largely, "not personal" and "personal").

Eventually, this tension (considering Sadler's "Zero" and "Pre-Zero" Ages discussion--from "A Study of the Master Universe"), is resolved by the Universal Absolute (which might be thought of as "the
scaffolding"), but my reference to dualistic energy (S and L), once again, IS THE STATE "BEFORE" THE UNIVERSAL ABSOLUTE.

It is also thought of as the tension between static and dynamic infinity.

Essentially, the way we see these two aspects of "original energy" functioning in our space-time, maybe be as:


(1) Singularity - Gravity, constriction, pattern-disassembling,
entropic, the other "side" of light, not personal, non-spirit, etc.

(2) Luminescence - Light, expansion, pattern-building, non-entropic (builds, rather than falls-apart), the other "side" of gravity,
personal, spirit, etc.

Two sides of the same coin (disc)...

Take a quarter out of your pocket (or do like I do, BORROW ONE
[:-)]!). If you were to imagine no relief-image on either side, color one side yellow and the other side black, and then look at the little ridges around the edge, the yellow would be L, the black would be S, and the edge would be the Reality Scaffolding, wrapped around the edge of S and L.

To be even more demonstrative, if you have access to a magnifying
lens) you could color one ridge red, in between every three blue
ridges, to look more like the scaffolding idea; a nice little project for you and the kids on a rainy day! ;)

Now, in the case of a quarter, there are exactlty 119 ridges. It may be tht in the future we discover that there are more frames to the scaffolding, but for now, we just pretend that instead of 119, there are 23, to fit the diagram above.

To completely where out this analogy (mataphoric model--and I will receive criticisms about this next part), imagine that God (FSC or Father, or I AM, etc.) flips this coin into the aether of infinity.

The coin spins in an axis. This is Universal Angular Momentum (equal to Original Energy). Naturally God's coin never fell back down again, and spins perpetually in Eternity. and since all things and beings are located around the edge of this Holy coin, there is no indication that any spin is happening at all, other than the fact that this spin give rise to all spirit and non-spirit energies.

As a final "tightening up" of this poor analogy, now, imagine that the coin is Paradise-shaped (A flattened, elongated, ellipsoid). Upper P. is L, and Nether P. is S. Instead of a Reality Scaffolding (or
ridges) along this "Periphery", the Master Spirits move, and create all sub-infinite reality.

These are different ways of explaining what I'm referring to when I speak of Singularity and Luminescence in the URT.

However, there are many other ways they could be expressed. The "holy coin" example just happens to fit (quite nicely, I must say) the
Scaffolding concept. But (for example) you could think of S as being the space-time pointed end of a geometric "creation" cone, and L would be it's other and expanded end. You could think of S as the
(supposed) singularity of a black hole, and L as being the place in space-time where matter, once-destroyed at the S end, is reconstituted at the other expanded end, perhaps generated by a new Creator Couple in the construction of their Local Universe. Or, think of the nucleus of the Ultimaton as an expression of S and all the other levels,
leading outward to the space-time fields, as an expression of L.


APPENDIX D - MEASUREMENTS OF PARADISE AND SACRED SPHERES SYSTEM


Originally my thought was that Paradise could be approximately 7 x 6 x 0.6 LY's. Making its perimeter approximately 20 LY's. I originally got this from the idea that we use the speed of light to make micro units (quanta).
Why not use the speed of light the measure Paradise Units. I know that
our earth year has nothing to do with the speed of light. But the 7 x 6 x 0.6 ratio just begged for a unit measure. And the unit 1, being 1/7 of the North-South axis, became a Paradise Unit. The problem then was HOW LONG IS THAT MEASURING STICK? Why not a light year?

And then for some reason it just seemed like it should be bigger so I fed it some vitamins and puffed it up to 7000 x 6000 x 600! (easy, boy!!) Now I know that must be wrong and that my first guess was
probably closer.

And naturally, a solid, stable object 7 LIGHT YEARS LONG (as we all know, a light year is about 5,878,499,810,000 miles), would be
41,149,498,670,000 miles!! OK?? That's plenty big enough for all future activities needed.

By the way, smarty pants ;), your ellipse formula is also the most reasonable and accurate I've seen. I'll try to use it more. For now I used another.

This is wonderful--at least in my completely deluded mind--because now we can have one BIG Paradise, but not outrageously big, and one
reasonably-sized Central Universe. I was checking it out, and the East-West axis of Paradise would reach all the way from the earth to slightly beyond Bernard's Star (at 5.9 LY's). Can you imagine an
object so big that (were it connected to the earth--and you had a lot of time to kill) you could literally walk all the way the Bernard's star? That's definitely big enough.

Also, your delivery of difference in circuit years is right "on time" too.
Get it? On time?? (Tap tap tap) Is this thing on??? ;)

So these numbers need crunching (to whomever wants to be the next
Havona Hero, don't let Mark grab all the glory, or Dave or Allen or Edgar...):

I'll start things off...

Going with an a axis = 7 LY, b axis = 6 LY, and c axis = 0.6 LY,
flattened elongated ellipsoid.

Looking something like this:



By the way I'm using the same e with the Upper to Nether curve (being elliptical, I believe, not round--in fact a half-ellipse for
Peripheral Paradise) that I use for the curve around North to South axis. This would DEFINITELY give the effect of no curve at all when viewing things from the surface of Peripheral Paradise--as the UB says.

As far as geometry goes, any high school-educated person should be able to calculate the formulas for Paradise's shape. There is a
rotated analytic formula for an ellipsoid but it is not necessary in this special case. I have examined Paradise in a very simply
geometric way.


MEASUREMENTS OF THE PARADISE SYSTEM


1. Perimeter of Paradise...

Circumference = 20.4806783 LY's

Formula: pi * [0.5(a^2 + b^2)]^0.5


2. Perimeters and Areas of Upper and Nether Paradise...

Both are flat, elliptical, 2-D planes (bordering, but not yet curving over the edge of Peripheral Paradise). The sizes for either of these planes, if we go by 7:6:0.6, is:

Circumference = 18.2888188 LY's

Circumference of Ellipse: pi * [0.5({a - 0.7^2} + {b - 0.7^2})]^0.5

Area = 26.22444468 Square LY's

Area of Ellipse: 0.25 * pi * (a - 0.7) * (b - 0.7)


3. Surface Area of Peripheral Paradise...

This is simply an elliptical cylinder (with same e as the Parimeter of the Isle), cut length wise down the middle (down the b axis plane), then one half of this elliptical cylinder is wrapped around the edges of the Upper and Nether surfaces (ellipses). And a cylinder's side is simplly a curved rectangle.

Surface Area = 37.4567408 Square LY's (the surface area of Peripheral Paradise is larger than that of either Upper or Nether Paradise).

Formula: Perimeter of Upper or Nether Paradise, or 18.2888188 LY's * the curved distance between them, or 2.0480678 LY's.


4. Surface Area of Entire Paradise Isle...

Surface Area of Special Ellipsoid = 74.0343784 Square LY's

Simply add up of the three areas already found...

Formula: Upper Paradise (18.2888188 Square LY's) + Nether Paradise (18.2888188 Square LY's) + Peripheral Paradise (37.4567408 Square
LY's) = Total Surface Area (74.0343784 Square LY's).


Mark Underwood's Alternate Measure if Paradise Isn't Completely Flat

"I have only one point to add, and that regards the precise shape of Paradise. Is it perfectly flat, like a tabletop, until it starts curving at the very edge? Or is it just slightly curved at the top, like a true ellipsoid? (The papers say that Paradise is "essentially flat". Hard call.) Even if it was a true ellipsoid, your calculations would still be very close, given the original 7 x 6 x .6 light year dimensions.

Let's check it out: From Wiki I see that an approximation for surface area of an ellipsoid (with an accuracy within 1.61 percent) is:

A = 4Pi (((ab)^p + (ac)^p + (bc)^p)/3)^(1/p)

where p = 1.6075; If we have a = 7/2, b = 6/2, c = 6/20

it yields about 68.4 square light years. Yours was about 74.03 square light years, so not too bad."

5. Preliminary Measurements of Sacred Spheres...

I will work on the Circuits
of the Sacred Spheres. Let's make their sizes 0.6 LY's in diameter each(?). That would make the diameter equal with the straight line distance between Upper and Nether Paradise. That is usually how they have been portrayed in artistic and graphic representations of the Paradise system. So why not, for now do the same with measurements.

That would make the diameter of one of these worlds about...

Diameter of Sacred Sphere = 3,527,099,886,000 miles

Equator of Sacred Sphere = 11,080,711,090,335 miles

Surface Area of Sacred Sphere = (an astounding!)
156,331,099,294,078,017,616,154,046 Square miles

Formula: 4 * pi * r^2

Volume of Sacred Sphere = (get this!)
22,974,808,437,433,219,017,043,455,333,738,000,000 (something like 2.2 x 10e37) Cubic miles

Formula: 3/4 * pi * r^3

[The above numbers--Sacred Sphere surface area and volume--seem too big, I'm thinking now. Help! :)]

So now we have to divide the space between the perimeter of Paradise and the inner circuit of Havona worlds into four parts and stick one Sacred Sphere circuit between each space. I have not worked out this number yet.


APPENDIX E - UB ANTIGRAVITY SEARCH

PAPER 9 - RELATION OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT TO THE UNIVERSE

* line 67: The Infinite Spirit possesses a unique and amazing
power--antigravity. This power is not functionally (observably) present in either the Father or the Son. This ability to withstand the pull of material gravity, inherent in the Third Source, is revealed in the personal reactions of the Conjoint Actor to certain phases of universe relationships. And this unique attribute is transmissible to certain of the higher personalities of the Infinite Spirit. * line 68: Antigravity can annul gravity within a local frame; it does so by the exercise of equal force presence. It operates only with reference to material gravity, and it is not the action of mind. The gravity-resistant phenomenon of a gyroscope is a fair illustration of the effect of antigravity but of no value to illustrate the cause of antigravity. * line 71: The universe of universes is permeated by the power-control creatures of the Third Source and Center: physical controllers, power directors, power centers, and other representatives of the God of Action who have to do with the regulation and stabilization of physical energies. These unique creatures of physical function all possess varying attributes of power control, such as antigravity, which they utilize in their efforts to establish the physical equilibrium of the matter and energies of the grand universe.

PAPER 7 - RELATION OF THE THE ETERNAL SON TO THE UNIVERSE

* line 41: This gravity control of spiritual things operates independently of time and space; therefore is spirit energy undiminished in
transmission. Spirit gravity never suffers time delays, nor does it undergo space diminution. It does not decrease in accordance with the square of the distance of its transmission; the circuits of pure spirit power are not retarded by the mass of the material creation. And this transcendence of time and space by pure spirit energies is inherent in the absoluteness of the Son; it is not due to the interposition of the antigravity forces of the Third Source and Center.

PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER

* line 120: 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. * line 126: 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. * line 167: 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. * line 168: 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. * line 250: 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.

PAPER 34 - THE LOCAL UNIVERSE MOTHER SPIRIT

* line 45: From the earliest association with the Creator Son the Universe Spirit possesses all the physical-control attributes of the Infinite Spirit, including the full endowment of antigravity. Upon the attainment of personal status the Universe Spirit exerts just as full and complete control of mind gravity, in the local universe, as would the Infinite Spirit if personally present.

PAPER 29 - THE UNIVERSE POWER DIRECTORS

* line 131: Of all the Master Physical Controllers assigned to the inhabited worlds, the mechanical controllers are by far the most powerful. Possessing the living endowment of antigravity in excess of all other beings, each controller has a gravity resistance equaled only by enormous spheres revolving at tremendous velocity. Ten of these controllers are now stationed on Urantia, and one of their most important planetary activities is to facilitate the departure of seraphic transports. In so functioning, all ten of the mechanical controllers act in unison while a battery of one thousand energy transmitters provides the initial momentum for the seraphic departure. * line 155: 6. Secondary Dissociators. Compared with the primary associators, these beings of enormous antigravity endowment are the reverse workers. There is never any danger that the special or modified forms of physical energy on the local worlds or in the local systems will be exhausted, for these living organizations are endowed with the unique power of evolving limitless supplies of energy. They are chiefly concerned with the evolution of a form of energy which is hardly known on Urantia from a form of matter which is recognized still less. They are truly the alchemists of space and the wonder-workers of time. But in all the wonders they work, they never transgress the mandates of Cosmic Supremacy.

PAPER 24 - HIGHER PERSONALITIES OF THE INFINITE SPIRIT

* line 37: Solitary Messengers, Circuit Supervisors, Census Directors, and the Personal Aids are characterized by the possession of tremendous endowments of antigravity. The Solitary Messengers are without known general headquarters; they roam the universe of universes. The Universe Circuit Supervisors and the Census Directors maintain headquarters on the capitals of the superuniverses. The Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit are stationed on the central Isle of Light. The Associate Inspectors and the Assigned Sentinels are respectively stationed on the capitals of the local universes and on the capitals of their component systems. The Graduate Guides are resident in the Havona universe and function on all its billion worlds. Most of these higher personalities have stations in the local universes, but they are not organically attached to the
administrations of the evolutionary realms.

PAPER 15 - THE SEVEN SUPERUNIVERSES

* line 200: Evolving energy has substance; it has weight, although weight is always relative, depending on revolutionary velocity, mass, and antigravity. Mass in matter tends to retard velocity in energy; and the anywhere-present velocity of energy represents: the initial endowment of velocity, minus retardation by mass encountered in transit, plus the regulatory function of the living energy controllers of the superuniverse and the physical influence of near-by highly heated or heavily charged bodies. * line 202: Given a sufficient duration of retarding influence, gravity would eventually convert all energy into matter were it not for two factors: First, because of the antigravity influences of the energy controllers, and second, because organized matter tends to disintegrate under certain conditions found in very hot stars and under certain peculiar conditions in space near highly energized cold bodies of
condensed matter. * line 211: The superuniverse of Orvonton is apparently now running down; the outer universes seem to be winding up for
unparalleled future activities; the central Havona universe is eternally stabilized. Gravity and absence of heat (cold) organize and hold matter together; heat and antigravity disrupt matter and dissipate energy. The living power directors and force organizers are the secret of the special control and intelligent direction of the endless metamorphoses of universe making, unmaking, and remaking. Nebulae may disperse, suns burn out, systems vanish, and planets perish, but the universes do not run down.

PAPER 14 - THE CENTRAL AND DIVINE UNIVERSE

* line 86: The planetary construction of the Havona spheres is entirely unlike that of the evolutionary worlds and systems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand universe is it convenient to utilize such enormous spheres as inhabited worlds. Triata physical constitution, coupled with the balancing effect of the immense dark gravity bodies, makes it possible so perfectly to equalize the physical forces and so exquisitely to balance the various attractions of this tremendous creation. Antigravity is also employed in the organization of the material functions and the spiritual activities of these enormous worlds.

PAPER 11 - THE ETERNAL ISLE OF PARADISE

* line 124: This alternate zoning of the master universe, in association with the alternate clockwise and counterclockwise flow of the galaxies, is a factor in the stabilization of physical gravity designed to prevent the accentuation of gravity pressure to the point of disruptive and dispersive activities. Such an arrangement exerts antigravity influence and acts as a brake upon otherwise dangerous velocities. * line 130: Space is
nonresponsive to gravity, but it acts as an equilibrant on gravity. Without the space cushion, explosive action would jerk surrounding space bodies. Pervaded space also exerts an antigravity influence upon physical or linear gravity; space can actually neutralize such gravity action even though it cannot delay it. Absolute gravity is Paradise gravity. Local or linear gravity pertains to the electrical stage of energy or matter; it operates within the central, super-, and outer universes, wherever suitable materialization has taken place.

APPENDIX F - UB TRIATA SEARCH

PAPER 42 - ENERGY--MIND AND MATTER

* line 83: On Uversa these energies of Havona are known as TRIATA.

PAPER 14 - THE CENTRAL AND DIVINE UNIVERSE

* line 86: The planetary construction of the Havona spheres is entirely unlike that of the evolutionary worlds and systems of space. Nowhere else in all the grand universe is it convenient to utilize such enormous spheres as inhabited worlds. Triata physical constitution, coupled with the balancing effect of the immense dark gravity bodies, makes it possible so perfectly to equalize the physical forces and so exquisitely to balance the various attractions of this tremendous creation. Antigravity is also employed in the organization of the material functions and the spiritual activities of these enormous worlds.

PAPER 11 - THE ETERNAL ISLE OF PARADISE

* line 138: 3. Postgravity Stages (Universe Power). In this stage, energy-matter discloses response to the control of linear gravity. In the central universe these physical systems are threefold organizations known as triata. They are the superpower mother systems of the creations of time and space. The physical systems of the superuniverses are mobilized by the Universe Power Directors and their associates. These material
organizations are dual in constitution and are known as gravita. The dark gravity bodies encircling Havona are neither triata nor gravita, and their drawing power discloses both forms of physical gravity, linear and absolute.