P124:2, 11:7.1 Space does not exist on any of
the surfaces of Paradise. If one "looked" directly up from the
upper surface of Paradise, one would "see" nothing but unpervaded
space going out or coming in, just now coming in. Space does not touch
Paradise; only the quiescent midspace zones come in contact with
the central Isle.
P124:3, 11:7.2 Paradise
is the actually motionless nucleus of the relatively quiescent zones existing
between pervaded and unpervaded space. Geographically these zones appear
to be a relative extension of Paradise, but there probably is some motion
in them. We know very little about them, but we observe that these zones
of lessened space motion separate pervaded and unpervaded space. Similar
zones once existed between the levels of pervaded space, but these are
now less quiescent.
P124:4, 11:7.3 The vertical
cross section of total space would slightly resemble a
maltese cross, with
the horizontal arms representing pervaded (universe) space and the vertical
arms representing unpervaded (reservoir) space. The areas between the four
arms would separate them somewhat as the midspace zones separate pervaded
and unpervaded space. These quiescent midspace zones grow larger and larger
at greater and greater distances from Paradise and eventually encompass
the borders of all space and completely
incapsulate both the space reservoirs
and the entire horizontal extension of pervaded space.
P124:5, 11:7.4 Space
is neither a subabsolute condition within, nor the presence of, the Unqualified
Absolute, neither is it a function of the Ultimate. It is a bestowal of
Paradise, and the space of the grand universe and that of all outer regions
is believed to be actually pervaded by the ancestral space potency of the
Unqualified Absolute. From near approach to peripheral Paradise, this pervaded
space extends horizontally outward through the fourth space level and beyond
the periphery of the master universe, but how far beyond we do not know.
P124:6, 11:7.5 If you imagine
a finite, but inconceivably large,
V-shaped plane situated at right angles
to both the upper and lower surfaces of Paradise, with its point nearly
tangent to peripheral Paradise, and then visualize this plane in elliptical
revolution about Paradise, its revolution would roughly outline the volume
of pervaded space.
P124:7, 11:7.6 There is
an upper and a lower limit to horizontal space with reference to any given
location in the universes. If one could move far enough at right angles
to the plane of Orvonton, either up or down, eventually the upper or lower
limit of pervaded space would be encountered. Within the known dimensions
of the master universe these limits draw farther and farther apart at greater
and greater distances from Paradise; space thickens, and it thickens somewhat
faster than does the plane of creation, the universes.
P125:1, 11:7.7 The relatively
quiet zones between the space levels, such as the one separating the seven
superuniverses from the first outer space level, are enormous elliptical
regions of quiescent space activities. These zones separate the vast galaxies
which race around Paradise in orderly procession. You may visualize the
first outer space level, where untold universes are now in process of formation,
as a vast procession of galaxies swinging around Paradise, bounded above
and below by the midspace zones of quiescence and bounded on the inner
and outer margins by relatively quiet space zones.
P125:2, 11:7.8 A space level thus
functions as an elliptical region of motion surrounded on all sides by
relative
motionlessness. Such relationships of motion and quiescence constitute
a curved space path of lessened resistance to motion which is universally
followed by cosmic force and emergent energy as they circle forever around
the Isle of Paradise.
P125:3, 11:7.9 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.