The Urantia Book -- Foreword
Foreword: Section VI
VI. Energy And Pattern
P9:3, 0:6.1 Any and all things responding
to the personality circuit of the Father, we call personal. Any and all
things responding to the spirit circuit of the Son, we call spirit. Any
and all that responds to the mind circuit of the Conjoint Actor, we call
mind, mind as an attribute of the Infinite Spirit -- mind in all its phases.
Any and all that responds to the material-gravity circuit centering in
nether Paradise, we call matter -- energy-matter in all its metamorphic
states.
P9:4, 0:6.2 ENERGY we
use as an all-inclusive term applied to spiritual, mindal, and material
realms.Force is also thus broadly used. Power is ordinarily
limited to the designation of the electronic level of material or
linear-gravity-responsive
matter in the grand universe. Power is also employed to designate sovereignty.
We cannot follow your generally accepted definitions of force, energy,
and power. There is such paucity of language that we must assign multiple
meanings to these terms.
P9:5, 0:6.3 Physical
energy is a term
denoting all phases and forms of phenomenal motion,
action, and potential.
P9:6, 0:6.4 In discussing
physical-energy manifestations, we generally use the terms cosmic force,
emergent energy, and universe power. These are often employed as follows:
P9:7, 0:6.5 1. Cosmic
force embraces all energies deriving from the Unqualified Absolute
but which are as yet unresponsive to Paradise gravity.
P9:8, 0:6.6 2. Emergent
energy embraces those energies which are responsive to Paradise gravity
but are as yet unresponsive to local or linear gravity. This is the pre-electronic
level of energy-matter.
P9:9, 0:6.7 3. Universe
power includes all forms of energy which, while still responding to
Paradise gravity, are directly responsive to linear gravity. This is the
electronic level of energy-matter and all subsequent evolutions thereof.
P9:10, 0:6.8 Mind
is a phenomenon
connoting the presence-activity of living ministry in
addition to varied energy systems; and this is true on all levels of intelligence.
In personality, mind ever intervenes between spirit and matter; therefore
is the universe illuminated by three kinds of light: material light, intellectual
insight, and spirit luminosity.
P10:1, 0:6.9 Light
-- spirit luminosity -- is a word symbol, a figure of speech, which connotes
the personality manifestation characteristic of spirit beings of diverse
orders. This luminous emanation is in no respect related either to intellectual
insight or to
physical-light manifestations.
P10:2, 0:6.10 PATTERN
can be projected as material, spiritual, or mindal, or any combination
of these energies. It can pervade personalities, identities, entities,
or nonliving matter. But pattern is pattern and remains pattern; only copies
are multiplied.
P10:3, 0:6.11 Pattern may
configure energy, but it does not control it. Gravity is the sole control
of energy-matter. Neither space nor pattern are gravity responsive, but
there is no relationship between space and pattern; space is neither pattern
nor potential pattern. Pattern is a configuration of reality which has
already paid all gravity debt; the reality of any pattern consists
of its energies, its mind, spirit, or material components.
P10:4, 0:6.12 In contrast
to the aspect of the total, pattern discloses the individual
aspect of energy and of personality. Personality or identity forms
are patterns resultant from energy (physical, spiritual, or mindal) but
are not inherent therein. That quality of energy or of personality by virtue
of which pattern is caused to appear may be attributed to God -- Deity
-- to Paradise force endowment, to the coexistence of personality and power.
P10:5, 0:6.13 Pattern is
a master design from which copies are made. Eternal Paradise is the absolute
of patterns; the Eternal Son is the pattern personality; the Universal
Father is the direct
ancestor-source of both. But Paradise does not bestow
pattern, and the Son cannot bestow personality.