- Paradise Forces and Energies
- Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems (Physical Energies)
- Classification of Matter
- Energy and Matter Transmutations
- Wave-Energy Manifestations
- Ultimatons, Electrons, and Atoms
- Atomic Matter
- Atomic Cohesion
- Natural Philosophy
- Universal Nonspiritual Energy Systems (Material Mind Systems)
- Universe Mechanisms
- Pattern and Form—Mind Dominance
42:0.1 (467.1) THE foundation of the universe is material in the sense that energy is the basis of all existence, and pure energy is controlled by the Universal Father. Force, energy, is the one thing which stands as an everlasting monument demonstrating and proving the existence and presence of the Universal Absolute. This vast stream of energy proceeding from the Paradise Presences has never lapsed, never failed; there has never been a break in the infinite upholding.
42:0.1 (467.1) 宇宙的根基是物質性的，這是就能量乃一切存在之基礎這一意義而言，且純能量受萬有之父控制。力，能量，是作為一座長存紀念碑而立的那一樣事物，這座紀念碑顯明並證明萬有絕對的存在與臨在。這股出自「天堂臨在」（Paradise Presences）的廣大能量之流，從未停歇、從未衰竭；在那無限的托持中，從未有過間斷。
42:0.2 (467.2) The manipulation of universe energy is ever in accordance with the personal will and the all-wise mandates of the Universal Father. This personal control of manifested power and circulating energy is modified by the co-ordinate acts and decisions of the Eternal Son, as well as by the united purposes of the Son and the Father executed by the Conjoint Actor. These divine beings act personally and as individuals; they also function in the persons and powers of an almost unlimited number of subordinates, each variously expressive of the eternal and divine purpose in the universe of universes. But these functional and provisional modifications or transmutations of divine power in no way lessen the truth of the statement that all force-energy is under the ultimate control of a personal God resident at the center of all things.
42:0.2 (467.2) 宇宙能量的操控，始終依循萬有之父的人格意志與全然-智慧命令。這種對已顯現力量與循環能量之人格控制，受到永恆之子的對等行動與決定所修改，亦受到由聯合行動者所執行之上子與上父合一的目的所修改。這些神性存有親自行事，並以個體身分行事；他們也在近乎無限制數量的從屬者身上與力量之中發揮功能，每一位各以不一的方式，表達那在由眾宇宙組成的宇宙中永恆而神性的目的。然而，神性力量的這些功能性與暫定的修改或嬗變，絲毫不減損以下陳述的真實性：一切力-能量，皆處於一位駐於萬物中心的人格之神的終極控制之下。
42:1.1 (467.3) The foundation of the universe is material, but the essence of life is spirit. The Father of spirits is also the ancestor of universes; the eternal Father of the Original Son is also the eternity-source of the original pattern, the Isle of Paradise.
42:1.1 (467.3) 宇宙的根基是物質性的，但生命的本質是靈。眾靈之父也是眾宇宙的始祖；原初之子的永恆上父，也是原初範型——天堂島——的永恆-源頭。
42:1.2 (467.4) Matter—energy—for they are but diverse manifestations of the same cosmic reality, as a universe phenomenon is inherent in the Universal Father. “In him all things consist.” Matter may appear to manifest inherent energy and to exhibit self-contained powers, but the lines of gravity involved in the energies concerned in all these physical phenomena are derived from, and are dependent on, Paradise. The ultimaton, the first measurable form of energy, has Paradise as its nucleus.
42:1.2 (467.4) 物質——能量——因為它們不過是同一宇宙體系實相的各異顯現，作為一種宇宙現象，固有於萬有之父之中。「萬物皆在他之中而立。」物質或許看似顯現固有的能量，並表現出自身所含的力量，但參與這一切物理現象的能量所涉及的引力線，都衍生自天堂，並依存於天堂。終極子——第一種可測量的能量形式——以天堂為其核心。
42:1.3 (467.5) There is innate in matter and present in universal space a form of energy not known on Urantia. When this discovery is finally made, then will physicists feel that they have solved, almost at least, the mystery of matter. And so will they have approached one step nearer the Creator; so will they have mastered one more phase of the divine technique; but in no sense will they have found God, neither will they have established the existence of matter or the operation of natural laws apart from the cosmic technique of Paradise and the motivating purpose of the Universal Father.
42:1.3 (467.5) 有一種在玉苒廈上未為人所知的能量形態，它是物質天生所具有的，並存在於萬有空間之中。當這一發現終於達成之時，物理學家將會覺得，他們已經解開了——至少是幾乎解開了——物質的奧祕。如此，他們將向造物主趨近了一步；如此，他們將又掌握了神性技術的一個面向；但無論就何種意義而言，屆時他們都不會已經找到神，也不會已經確立物質之存在或自然法則之運作，可以獨立於天堂之宇宙體系技術與萬有之父那驅動性目的。
42:1.4 (468.1) Subsequent to even still greater progress and further discoveries, after Urantia has advanced immeasurably in comparison with present knowledge, though you should gain control of the energy revolutions of the electrical units of matter to the extent of modifying their physical manifestations—even after all such possible progress, forever will scientists be powerless to create one atom of matter or to originate one flash of energy or ever to add to matter that which we call life.
42:1.4 (468.1) 在甚至更大的進展與進一步的發現之後，當玉苒廈相較於目前的知識已不可估量地前進之後，即使你們能控制物質之電性單元的能量轉動，達到修改其物理顯現的程度——甚至在所有這些可能的進展之後，科學家仍將永遠無力創造一個物質原子，或創始一道能量閃光，也始終無力將我們稱之為生命加添於物質之中。
42:1.5 (468.2) The creation of energy and the bestowal of life are the prerogatives of the Universal Father and his associate Creator personalities. The river of energy and life is a continuous outpouring from the Deities, the universal and united stream of Paradise force going forth to all space. This divine energy pervades all creation. The force organizers initiate those changes and institute those modifications of space-force which eventuate in energy; the power directors transmute energy into matter; thus the material worlds are born. The Life Carriers initiate those processes in dead matter which we call life, material life. The Morontia Power Supervisors likewise perform throughout the transition realms between the material and the spiritual worlds. The higher spirit Creators inaugurate similar processes in divine forms of energy, and there ensue the higher spirit forms of intelligent life.
42:1.5 (468.2) 能量的創造與生命的賜予，是萬有之父及其相聯的造物者人格的特權。能量與生命之河，是出自諸神靈的一道不間斷的傾注，是往一切空間而去的天堂力那萬有而合一之流。這神性能量遍布一切造物。力組織者對空間-力啟動那些改變，並施行那些修改，而這終致能量；力量主管者將能量嬗變為物質；物質世界便如此誕生。生命攜帶者在死的物質中啟動那些我們稱之為生命——物質生命——的過程。靈質力量監督者同樣在物質世界與靈性世界之間的整個過渡界域中施為。較高的靈造物者在神性的能量形態中開創類似的過程，隨之而生的，是智能生命的較高靈形態。
42:1.6 (468.3) Energy proceeds from Paradise, fashioned after the divine order. Energy—pure energy—partakes of the nature of the divine organization; it is fashioned after the similitude of the three Gods embraced in one, as they function at the headquarters of the universe of universes. And all force is circuited in Paradise, comes from the Paradise Presences and returns thereto, and is in essence a manifestation of the uncaused Cause—the Universal Father; and without the Father would not anything exist that does exist.
42:1.6 (468.3) 能量出自天堂，依照神性秩序而被塑成。能量——純能量——帶有神性組織之本性；它是依照被涵括於一的三位神的形貌而塑成的，正如他們在由眾宇宙組成的宇宙之總部發揮功能那樣。而一切力皆成迴路於天堂，源自「天堂臨在」，並歸返於彼，且就本質而言是無因之因——萬有之父——的一種顯現；若沒有上父，凡的確存在的，沒有一樣會存在。
42:1.7 (468.4) Force derived from self-existent Deity is in itself ever existent. Force-energy is imperishable, indestructible; these manifestations of the Infinite may be subject to unlimited transmutation, endless transformation, and eternal metamorphosis; but in no sense or degree, not even to the slightest imaginable extent, could they or ever shall they suffer extinction. But energy, though springing from the Infinite, is not infinitely manifest; there are outer limits to the presently conceived master universe.
42:1.7 (468.4) 衍生於自存神靈的力，其本身是始終存在的。力-能量是不朽的、不可摧毀的；無限者的這些顯現，可以經歷不受限的嬗變、無盡的轉化與永恆的蛻變；但無論在何種意義或程度上，甚至在可想像的最微小範圍內，它們都不可能、也始終不會遭受滅絕。然而能量雖發源於無限者，卻並非無限地顯現；目前所構想的主宇宙，有其外部限度。
42:1.8 (468.5) Energy is eternal but not infinite; it ever responds to the all-embracing grasp of Infinity. Forever force and energy go on; having gone out from Paradise, they must return thereto, even if age upon age be required for the completion of the ordained circuit. That which is of Paradise Deity origin can have only a Paradise destination or a Deity destiny.
42:1.8 (468.5) 能量是永恆的，卻不是無限的；它始終回應「無限」那涵括一切的掌握。力與能量永遠行進下去；既已從天堂出去，它們必須返歸於彼，即使完成所頒定的迴路需要一個又一個時代。凡起源於天堂神靈者，只能有天堂歸宿或神靈天命。
42:1.9 (468.6) And all this confirms our belief in a circular, somewhat limited, but orderly and far-flung universe of universes. If this were not true, then evidence of energy depletion at some point would sooner or later appear. All laws, organizations, administration, and the testimony of universe explorers—everything points to the existence of an infinite God but, as yet, a finite universe, a circularity of endless existence, well-nigh limitless but, nevertheless, finite in contrast with infinity.
42:1.9 (468.6) 而這一切都印證了我們對一個環形的、略受限的，卻有序而廣袤的由眾宇宙組成的宇宙的信念。倘若此非屬實，那麼某一點上能量耗竭的證據，遲早將會出現。一切法則、組織、行政，以及宇宙探索者的見證——每一事物都指向一位無限的神之存在，但迄今為止，則指向一個有限的宇宙——一個無盡存在的環形，幾近無限度，但與無限相對比，仍然是有限的。
42:2.1 (469.1) It is indeed difficult to find suitable words in the English language whereby to designate and wherewith to describe the various levels of force and energy—physical, mindal, or spiritual. These narratives cannot altogether follow your accepted definitions of force, energy, and power. There is such paucity of language that we must use these terms in multiple meanings. In this paper, for example, the word energy is used to denote all phases and forms of phenomenal motion, action, and potential, while force is applied to the pregravity, and power to the postgravity, stages of energy.
42:2.1 (469.1) 要在英語中找到合適的詞語，藉以標示並憑以描述力與能量——物理的、心智的或靈性的——的各種層級，誠然困難。這些敘事無法完全依從你們對力、能量與力量所接受的定義。語言是如此貧乏，以致我們必須以多重意義使用這些用語。例如，在本篇章中，能量一詞用以指稱現象性運動、作用與潛能的一切相與形態；而力則用於能量的前引力階段，力量則用於能量的後引力階段。
42:2.2 (469.2) I will, however, endeavor to lessen conceptual confusion by suggesting the advisability of adopting the following classification for cosmic force, emergent energy, and universe power—physical energy:
42:2.2 (469.2) 然而，我將盡力減少概念上的混淆，藉著建議宜採用下列對宇宙體系力、浮現能量與宇宙力量——物理能量——的分類：
42:2.3 (469.3) 1. Space potency. This is the unquestioned free space presence of the Unqualified Absolute. The extension of this concept connotes the universe force-space potential inherent in the functional totality of the Unqualified Absolute, while the intension of this concept implies the totality of cosmic reality—universes—which emanated eternitywise from the never-beginning, never-ending, never-moving, never-changing Isle of Paradise.
42:2.3 (469.3) 1. 空間潛勢。這是無限定絕對無可置疑的自由空間臨在。此一概念的外延，涵指固有於無限定絕對之功能性總體中的宇宙力-空間潛能，而此一概念的內涵，則意味著宇宙體系實相的總體——眾宇宙——它們以永恆的方式，從那永無起始、永無終止、永不移動、永不改變的天堂島流溢而出。
42:2.4 (469.4) The phenomena indigenous to the nether side of Paradise probably embrace three zones of absolute force presence and performance: the fulcral zone of the Unqualified Absolute, the zone of the Isle of Paradise itself, and the intervening zone of certain unidentified equalizing and compensating agencies or functions. These triconcentric zones are the centrum of the Paradise cycle of cosmic reality.
42:2.4 (469.4) 內生於天堂下側的現象，很可能涵括絕對的力之臨在與施展的三個區域：無限定絕對的支點區域、天堂島本身的區域，以及介於其間、某些未經辨識的均等化與補償作用者或功能的區域。這三重同心的區域，是宇宙體系實相之天堂循環的中樞。
42:2.5 (469.5) Space potency is a prereality; it is the domain of the Unqualified Absolute and is responsive only to the personal grasp of the Universal Father, notwithstanding that it is seemingly modifiable by the presence of the Primary Master Force Organizers.
42:2.5 (469.5) 空間潛勢是一種前實相；它是無限定絕對的領域，並且僅對萬有之父的人格掌握有所回應，儘管它看似可被首階主力組織者的臨在所修改。
42:2.6 (469.6) On Uversa, space potency is spoken of as absoluta .
42:2.6 (469.6) 在尤沃薩上，空間潛勢被稱為絕對能（ABSOLUTA）。
42:2.7 (469.7) 2. Primordial force. This represents the first basic change in space potency and may be one of the nether Paradise functions of the Unqualified Absolute. We know that the space presence going out from nether Paradise is modified in some manner from that which is incoming. But regardless of any such possible relationships, the openly recognized transmutation of space potency into primordial force is the primary differentiating function of the tension-presence of the living Paradise force organizers.
42:2.7 (469.7) 2. 原初力。這代表空間潛勢中第一個基本的改變，並且可能是無限定絕對的下層天堂功能之一。我們知道，從下層天堂向外而去的空間臨在，是以某種方式由那向內而來者修改而成的。然而，無論任何此種可能的關係，那公開認定的空間潛勢之嬗變為原初力，乃是有生命的天堂力組織者之張力-臨在的首要分化功能。
42:2.8 (469.8) Passive and potential force becomes active and primordial in response to the resistance afforded by the space presence of the Primary Eventuated Master Force Organizers. Force is now emerging from the exclusive domain of the Unqualified Absolute into the realms of multiple response—response to certain primal motions initiated by the God of Action and thereupon to certain compensating motions emanating from the Universal Absolute. Primordial force is seemingly reactive to transcendental causation in proportion to absoluteness.
42:2.8 (469.8) 被動且潛在的力，回應首階終歸主力組織者之空間臨在所提供的阻力，而成為主動且原初的。力此時正從無限定絕對的專屬領域浮現，進入多重回應的界域——回應由行動之神所啟動的某些原始運動，繼而回應從萬有絕對流溢而出的某些補償運動。原初力看似按絕對性的比例，對超越性因果作用起反應。
42:2.9 (469.9) Primordial force is sometimes spoken of as pure energy; on Uversa we refer to it as segregata .
42:2.9 (469.9) 原初力有時亦被稱作純能量；在尤沃薩上，我們稱之為分隔能（SEGREGATA）。
42:2.10 (470.1) 3. Emergent energies. The passive presence of the primary force organizers is sufficient to transform space potency into primordial force, and it is upon such an activated space field that these same force organizers begin their initial and active operations. Primordial force is destined to pass through two distinct phases of transmutation in the realms of energy manifestation before appearing as universe power. These two levels of emerging energy are:
42:2.10 (470.1) 3. 浮現能量。首階力組織者被動的臨在，足以將空間潛勢轉化為原初力，而正是在這樣一個經活化的空間場上，這些同一批力組織者開始其初始而主動的運作。原初力在以宇宙力量出現之前，注定要在能量顯現的界域中經歷兩個分明的嬗變期。這兩個浮現中能量的層級是：
42:2.11 (470.2) a. Puissant energy. This is the powerful-directional, mass-movemented, mighty-tensioned, and forcible-reacting energy—gigantic energy systems set in motion by the activities of the primary force organizers. This primary or puissant energy is not at first definitely responsive to the Paradise-gravity pull though probably yielding an aggregate-mass or space-directional response to the collective group of absolute influences operative from the nether side of Paradise. When energy emerges to the level of initial response to the circular and absolute-gravity grasp of Paradise, the primary force organizers give way to the functioning of their secondary associates.
42:2.11 (470.2) a. 雄勁能量（Puissant energy）。這是強力-方向性的、質量-運動的、強大-張力的、猛力-反應的能量——由首階力組織者之活動所發動的巨大能量系統。這種首階的或雄勁的能量，起初並不明確地對天堂-引力的牽引有所回應，雖然很可能對從天堂下側運作的絕對影響之集體群，產生一種聚集-質量的或空間-方向性的回應。當能量浮現至對天堂那環形的、絕對-引力的掌握作出初始回應之層級時，首階力組織者便讓位於其二階相聯者的功能發揮。
42:2.12 (470.3) b. Gravity energy. The now-appearing gravity-responding energy carries the potential of universe power and becomes the active ancestor of all universe matter. This secondary or gravity energy is the product of the energy elaboration resulting from the pressure-presence and the tension-trends set up by the Associate Transcendental Master Force Organizers. In response to the work of these force manipulators, space-energy rapidly passes from the puissant to the gravity stage, thus becoming directly responsive to the circular grasp of Paradise (absolute) gravity while disclosing a certain potential for sensitivity to the linear-gravity pull inherent in the soon appearing material mass of the electronic and the postelectronic stages of energy and matter. Upon the appearance of gravity response, the Associate Master Force Organizers may retire from the energy cyclones of space provided the Universe Power Directors are assignable to that field of action.
42:2.12 (470.3) b. 引力能量（Gravity energy）。此時出現的、回應引力的能量，帶有宇宙力量的潛能，並成為一切宇宙物質活躍的祖先。這種二階的或引力的能量，是由副超越性主力組織者所設立的壓力-臨在與張力-趨勢所導致的能量精煉之產物。回應這些力操控者的工作，空間-能量迅速從雄勁階段進入引力階段，因而變得對天堂（絕對）引力的環形掌握有直接回應，同時顯露出某種對線性-引力牽引之敏感性的潛能，而此一牽引固有於能量與物質之電子階段與後電子階段中即將出現的物質質量。在引力回應出現之際，副主力組織者便可從空間的能量氣旋中退出，前提是宇宙力量主管者可被委派至該行動場域。
42:2.13 (470.4) We are quite uncertain regarding the exact causes of the early stages of force evolution, but we recognize the intelligent action of the Ultimate in both levels of emergent-energy manifestation. Puissant and gravity energies, when regarded collectively, are spoken of on Uversa as ultimata .
42:2.13 (470.4) 對於力演化早期階段的確切原因，我們相當不確定，但我們認知到終極者在浮現-能量顯現之兩個層級中的智能行動。雄勁能量與引力能量，當合而視之時，在尤沃薩上被稱作終極能（ULTIMATA）。
42:2.14 (470.5) 4. Universe power. Space-force has been changed into space-energy and thence into the energy of gravity control. Thus has physical energy been ripened to that point where it can be directed into channels of power and made to serve the manifold purposes of the universe Creators. This work is carried on by the versatile directors, centers, and controllers of physical energy in the grand universe—the organized and inhabited creations. These Universe Power Directors assume the more or less complete control of twenty-one of the thirty phases of energy constituting the present energy system of the seven superuniverses. This domain of power-energy-matter is the realm of the intelligent activities of the Sevenfold, functioning under the time-space overcontrol of the Supreme.
42:2.14 (470.5) 4. 宇宙力量。空間-力已被改變為空間-能量，並由此而改變為引力控制之能量。如此，物理能量已被熟化至那一點，在那一點上，它能被導入力量的渠道，並被用來服務於宇宙造物者之多重目的。這項工作由大宇宙——已組織且有居住者的造物——中那些多能的物理能量主管者、彙聚者與控制者所進行。這些宇宙力量主管者，對構成七個超宇宙現行能量系統的三十個能量相之中的二十一個，承擔或多或少完全的控制。這個力量-能量-物質的領域，是那在至上者之時間-空間總體控制下發揮功能的七重者，其智能活動的界域。
42:2.15 (470.6) On Uversa we refer to the realm of universe power as gravita .
42:2.15 (470.6) 在尤沃薩上，我們稱宇宙力量的界域為引能（GRAVITA）。
42:2.16 (470.7) 5. Havona energy. In concept this narrative has been moving Paradiseward as transmuting space-force has been followed, level by level, to the working level of the energy-power of the universes of time and space. Continuing Paradiseward, there is next encountered a pre-existent phase of energy which is characteristic of the central universe. Here the evolutionary cycle seems to turn back upon itself; energy-power now seems to begin to swing back towards force, but force of a nature very unlike that of space potency and primordial force. Havona energy systems are not dual; they are triune. This is the existential energy domain of the Conjoint Actor, functioning in behalf of the Paradise Trinity.
42:2.16 (470.7) 5. 哈沃納能量。在概念上，本敘事一直朝天堂的方向移動，隨著嬗變中的空間-力已被逐層追蹤至時間與空間之眾宇宙的能量-力量的運作層級。繼續朝天堂而行，接著所遇見的，是能量的一個先存相，為中央宇宙所特有。在此，演化的循環似乎折返向自身；能量-力量此時似乎開始擺回而朝向力，但那是一種本性與空間潛勢及原初力之本性極為不同的力。哈沃納能量系統並非二元的；它們是三而一的。這是那代表天堂三位一體發揮功能的聯合行動者之存在性的能量領域。
42:2.17 (471.1) On Uversa these energies of Havona are known as triata .
42:2.17 (471.1) 在尤沃薩上，哈沃納的這些能量名為三元能（TRIATA）。
42:2.18 (471.2) 6. Transcendental energy. This energy system operates on and from the upper level of Paradise and only in connection with the absonite peoples. On Uversa it is denominated tranosta .
42:2.18 (471.2) 6. 超越性能量。這個能量系統在天堂的上層級之上、並從該層級運作，且僅與絕限族群相連而運作。在尤沃薩上，它被命名為超越能（TRANOSTA）。
42:2.19 (471.3) 7. Monota. Energy is close of kin to divinity when it is Paradise energy. We incline to the belief that monota is the living, nonspirit energy of Paradise—an eternity counterpart of the living, spirit energy of the Original Son—hence the nonspiritual energy system of the Universal Father.
42:2.19 (471.3) 7. 一元能（monota）。能量當其為天堂能量時，與神性有密切的親緣關係。我們傾向於相信，一元能是天堂有生命的、非靈能量——原初之子那有生命的、靈能量之永恆對應物——因此是萬有之父的非靈性能量系統。
42:2.20 (471.4) We cannot differentiate the nature of Paradise spirit and Paradise monota; they are apparently alike. They have different names, but you can hardly be told very much about a reality whose spiritual and whose nonspiritual manifestations are distinguishable only by name.
42:2.20 (471.4) 我們無法區分天堂靈與天堂一元能的本性；它們看來是相像的。它們有不同的名稱，但對於一種其靈性的顯現與其非靈性的顯現僅能以名稱區別的實相，你幾乎無法被告知太多。
42:2.21 (471.5) We know that finite creatures can attain the worship experience of the Universal Father through the ministry of God the Sevenfold and the Thought Adjusters, but we doubt that any subabsolute personality, even power directors, can comprehend the energy infinity of the First Great Source and Center. One thing is certain: If the power directors are conversant with the technique of the metamorphosis of space-force, they do not reveal the secret to the rest of us. It is my opinion that they do not fully comprehend the function of the force organizers.
42:2.21 (471.5) 我們知道，有限的受造物能藉由七重神與思想調整者所施的事奉，達致對萬有之父的敬拜體驗，但我們懷疑任何次絕對人格——甚至力量主管者——能夠領會第一偉大本源與中心之能量無限性。有一件事是確定的：倘若力量主管者通曉空間-力之蛻變的技術，他們並不將這一祕密揭示給我們其餘的人。我的看法是，他們並不充分領會力組織者的功能。
42:2.22 (471.6) These power directors themselves are energy catalyzers; that is, they cause energy to segment, organize, or assemble in unit formation by their presence. And all this implies that there must be something inherent in energy which causes it thus to function in the presence of these power entities. The Nebadon Melchizedeks long since denominated the phenomenon of the transmutation of cosmic force into universe power as one of the seven “infinities of divinity.” And that is as far as you will advance on this point during your local universe ascension.
42:2.22 (471.6) 這些力量主管者本身是能量催化者；也就是說，他們藉由自身的臨在，使能量分段、組織，或以單位編組聚集。而這一切都意味著，必定有某種事物固有於能量之，使它在這些力量實體的臨在中如此發揮功能。內巴頓的默基瑟德早已將宇宙體系力之嬗變為宇宙力量這一現象，命名為七項「神性之無限」之一。而在這一點上，你於地方宇宙揚升期間所將推進到的，就止於此。
42:2.23 (471.7) Notwithstanding our inability fully to comprehend the origin, nature, and transmutations of cosmic force, we are fully conversant with all phases of emergent-energy behavior from the times of its direct and unmistakable response to the action of Paradise gravity—about the time of the beginning of the function of the superuniverse power directors.
42:2.23 (471.7) 儘管我們無法充分領會宇宙體系力的起源、本性與嬗變，我們卻充分通曉浮現-能量行為的一切面向，自其對天堂引力作用的直接而無可錯認之回應的時期起——約在超級宇宙力量主管者之功能開始之時。
42:3.1 (471.8) Matter in all universes, excepting in the central universe, is identical. Matter in its physical properties depends on the revolutionary rates of its component members, the number and size of the revolving members, their distance from the nuclear body or the space content of matter, as well as on the presence of certain forces as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
42:3.1 (471.8) 所有宇宙中的物質，中央宇宙中的除外，都是相同的。物質在其物理性質上，取決於其組成成員的轉動速率、轉動成員的數目與大小、、它們與核心體的距離或物質的空間含量，以及取決於某些尚未在玉苒廈上被發現的力之存在。
42:3.2 (471.9) In the varied suns, planets, and space bodies there are ten grand divisions of matter:
42:3.2 (471.9) 在多樣的太陽、行星與空間體中，存在著物質的十大分部：
42:3.3 (472.1) 1. Ultimatonic matter—the prime physical units of material existence, the energy particles which go to make up electrons.
42:3.3 (472.1) 1. 終極子物質——物質存在的首要物理單位，構成電子的能量粒子。
42:3.4 (472.2) 2. Subelectronic matter—the explosive and repellent stage of the solar supergases.
42:3.4 (472.2) 2. 次電子（Subelectronic）物質——太陽超氣體的爆炸性與排斥性階段。
42:3.5 (472.3) 3. Electronic matter—the electrical stage of material differentiation—electrons, protons, and various other units entering into the varied constitution of the electronic groups.
42:3.5 (472.3) 3. 電子物質——物質分化的電性階段——電子、質子，以及進入電子群之多樣構造中的各種其他單位。
42:3.6 (472.4) 4. Subatomic matter—matter existing extensively in the interior of the hot suns.
42:3.6 (472.4) 4. 次原子物質——廣泛存在於高溫太陽內部的物質。
42:3.7 (472.5) 5. Shattered atoms—found in the cooling suns and throughout space.
42:3.7 (472.5) 5. 粉碎的原子——見於冷卻中的太陽與空間各處。
42:3.8 (472.6) 6. Ionized matter—individual atoms stripped of their outer (chemically active) electrons by electrical, thermal, or X-ray activities and by solvents.
42:3.8 (472.6) 6. 離子化物質——被電、熱或X射線的活動以及被溶劑剝除外層（具化學活性的）電子的個別原子。
42:3.9 (472.7) 7. Atomic matter—the chemical stage of elemental organization, the component units of molecular or visible matter.
42:3.9 (472.7) 7. 原子物質——元素組織的化學階段，分子物質或可見物質的組成單位。
42:3.10 (472.8) 8. The molecular stage of matter—matter as it exists on Urantia in a state of relatively stable materialization under ordinary conditions.
42:3.10 (472.8) 8. 物質的分子階段——在一般條件下處於相對穩定物質化之狀態的物質，一如其存在於玉苒廈上。
42:3.11 (472.9) 9. Radioactive matter—the disorganizing tendency and activity of the heavier elements under conditions of moderate heat and diminished gravity pressure.
42:3.11 (472.9) 9. 放射性物質——在中等熱度與減低的引力壓力之條件下，較重元素之解組的傾向與活動。
42:3.12 (472.10) 10. Collapsed matter—the relatively stationary matter found in the interior of the cold or dead suns. This form of matter is not really stationary; there is still some ultimatonic even electronic activity, but these units are in very close proximity, and their rates of revolution are greatly diminished.
42:3.12 (472.10) 10. 坍縮物質——見於寒冷或死亡的太陽內部、相對靜止的物質。這種形態的物質並非確實靜止；仍有某些終極子甚至電子的活動，但這些單位彼此極為貼近，其轉動速率也大為減低。
42:3.13 (472.11) The foregoing classification of matter pertains to its organization rather than to the forms of its appearance to created beings. Neither does it take into account the pre-emergent stages of energy nor the eternal materializations on Paradise and in the central universe.
42:3.13 (472.11) 上述的物質分類關乎其組織，而非關乎其向受造的存有呈現的形態。它既未將能量的前浮現階段，也未將天堂上與中央宇宙中的永恆物質化納入考量。
42:4.1 (472.12) Light, heat, electricity, magnetism, chemism, energy, and matter are—in origin, nature, and destiny—one and the same thing, together with other material realities as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
42:4.1 (472.12) 光、熱、電、磁、化學力、能量與物質——在起源、本性與歸趨上——是同一個事物，連同其他在玉苒廈上迄今尚未被發現的物質性實相在內。
42:4.2 (472.13) We do not fully comprehend the almost endless changes to which physical energy may be subject. In one universe it appears as light, in another as light plus heat, in another as forms of energy unknown on Urantia; in untold millions of years it may reappear as some form of restless, surging electrical energy or magnetic power; and still later on it may again appear in a subsequent universe as some form of variable matter going through a series of metamorphoses, to be followed by its outward physical disappearance in some great cataclysm of the realms. And then, after countless ages and almost endless wandering through numberless universes, again may this same energy re-emerge and many times change its form and potential; and so do these transformations continue through successive ages and throughout countless realms. Thus matter sweeps on, undergoing the transmutations of time but swinging ever true to the circle of eternity; even if long prevented from returning to its source, it is ever responsive thereto, and it ever proceeds in the path ordained by the Infinite Personality who sent it forth.
42:4.2 (472.13) 我們並未充分領會物理能量可能受到的幾乎無盡的改變。它在一個宇宙中以光出現，在另一個宇宙中以光加上熱出現，在另一個宇宙中以玉苒廈上未知的能量形態出現；在難以計量的數百萬年之後，它可能以某種躁動而洶湧的電性能量或磁性力量的形態再度出現；再往後，它可能又在一個後續的宇宙中，以某種經過一連串蛻變的可變物質的形態出現，繼之以在諸界域的某場巨大劇變中，其外在的、物理上的消失。然後，在數不盡的時代，以及穿越無數宇宙的幾乎無盡的漫遊之後，這同一能量可能又再度浮現，並多次改變其形態與潛能；這些轉化也就如此繼續下去，貫穿相繼的時代，遍及數不盡的界域。因此，物質長驅向前，經歷時間的嬗變，卻始終忠於永恆之圈而運行；即使長久受阻而未能返回其本源，它也始終對之有所回應，並且始終行進在將它發出的無限人格所頒定的路徑上。
42:4.3 (473.1) The power centers and their associates are much concerned in the work of transmuting the ultimaton into the circuits and revolutions of the electron. These unique beings control and compound power by their skillful manipulation of the basic units of materialized energy, the ultimatons. They are masters of energy as it circulates in this primitive state. In liaison with the physical controllers they are able to effectively control and direct energy even after it has transmuted to the electrical level, the so-called electronic stage. But their range of action is enormously curtailed when electronically organized energy swings into the whirls of the atomic systems. Upon such materialization, these energies fall under the complete grasp of the drawing power of linear gravity.
42:4.3 (473.1) 力量彙聚者及其相聯者，於將終極子嬗變為電子之迴路與轉動的工作，涉入甚多。這些獨特的存有，藉著他們對已物質化能量之基本單位——終極子——的嫻熟操控，來控制並複合力量。當能量在此原始狀態中循環時，他們是能量的駕馭者。在與物理控制者的聯結中，即使在能量已嬗變至電性層級——所謂的電子階段——之後，他們仍能有效地控制並引導能量。但當以電子方式組織的能量轉入原子系統的迴旋時，他們的行動範圍被巨幅縮減。立即在這樣的物質化之後，這些能量落入線性引力之牽引力量的完全掌握之下。
42:4.4 (473.2) 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.
42:4.4 (473.2) 引力正向地作用於力量彙聚者與物理控制者的力量通道和能量渠道，但這些存有對引力只具有一種負向的關係——其反引力稟賦之運用。
42:4.5 (473.3) Throughout all space, cold and other influences are at work creatively organizing ultimatons into electrons. Heat is the measurement of electronic activity, while cold merely signifies absence of heat—comparative energy rest—the status of the universal force-charge of space provided neither emergent energy nor organized matter were present and responding to gravity.
42:4.5 (473.3) 遍及所有空間，冷以及其他影響力正在發揮作用，創造性地將終極子組織成電子。熱是電子活動的量度，而冷僅僅意指熱的缺乏——相較而言的能量靜止——在既無浮現能量、亦無有組織的物質存在並回應引力的前提下，空間的萬有力荷所會處於的狀況。
42:4.6 (473.4) Gravity presence and action is what prevents the appearance of the theoretical absolute zero, for interstellar space does not have the temperature of absolute zero. Throughout all organized space there are gravity-responding energy currents, power circuits, and ultimatonic activities, as well as organizing electronic energies. Practically speaking, space is not empty. Even the atmosphere of Urantia thins out increasingly until at about three thousand miles it begins to shade off into the average space matter in this section of the universe. The most nearly empty space known in Nebadon would yield about one hundred ultimatons—the equivalent of one electron—in each cubic inch. Such scarcity of matter is regarded as practically empty space.
42:4.6 (473.4) 正是引力的臨在與作用，阻止了理論上的絕對零度之出現，因為星際空間並不具有絕對零度的溫度。在整個有組織的空間中，存在著回應引力的能量流、力量迴路和終極子活動，以及正在組織的電子能量。就實際而言，空間並非空無。即使是玉苒廈的大氣，也越來越稀薄，直到約四千八百公里處，才開始漸變為宇宙這一區段中的平均空間物質。在內巴頓中所知的最接近空無的空間，每十六點四立方公分可產出約一百個終極子——相當於一個電子。物質之如此稀少，被視為近乎空無的空間。
42:4.7 (473.5) Temperature—heat and cold—is secondary only to gravity in the realms of energy and matter evolution. Ultimatons are humbly obedient to temperature extremes. Low temperatures favor certain forms of electronic construction and atomic assembly, while high temperatures facilitate all sorts of atomic breakup and material disintegration.
42:4.7 (473.5) 溫度——熱與冷——在能量與物質演化的界域中，僅次於引力。終極子謙卑地順從於溫度的極端。低溫有利於某些形式的電子建構與原子組裝，而高溫則有助於各式各樣的原子崩解與物質的解體。
42:4.8 (473.6) When subjected to the heat and pressure of certain internal solar states, all but the most primitive associations of matter may be broken up. Heat can thus largely overcome gravity stability. But no known solar heat or pressure can convert ultimatons back into puissant energy.
42:4.8 (473.6) 當受到某些內部的太陽狀態之熱與壓力時，除了物質最原始的結合之外，一切都可能被崩解。熱因此能在很大程度上克服引力穩定性。但沒有任何已知的太陽熱或壓力能將終極子轉換回雄勁能量。
42:4.9 (473.7) The blazing suns can transform matter into various forms of energy, but the dark worlds and all outer space can slow down electronic and ultimatonic activity to the point of converting these energies into the matter of the realms. Certain electronic associations of a close nature, as well as many of the basic associations of nuclear matter, are formed in the exceedingly low temperatures of open space, being later augmented by association with larger accretions of materializing energy.
42:4.9 (473.7) 熾熱的太陽能將物質轉化為各種形式的能量，但暗世界與所有外圍空間，能減緩電子與終極子的活動，達到將這些能量轉換為諸界域之物質的程度。某些具緊密性質的電子結合，以及核物質的許多基本結合，都是在開放空間的極低溫度中形成的成，之後藉著與正在物質化之能量的較大聚積相結合而增長。
42:4.10 (473.8) 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.
42:4.10 (473.8) 在這一切能量與物質之永無終止的蛻變全程中，我們必須考量引力壓力的影響，以及終極子能量在溫度、速度與轉動的某些條件下的反引力行為。溫度、能量流、距離，以及有生命的力組織者與力量主管者的臨在，也關涉能量與物質的一切嬗變現象。
42:4.11 (474.1) The increase of mass in matter is equal to the increase of energy divided by the square of the velocity of light. In a dynamic sense the work which resting matter can perform is equal to the energy expended in bringing its parts together from Paradise minus the resistance of the forces overcome in transit and the attraction exerted by the parts of matter on one another.
42:4.11 (474.1) 物質中質量的增加，等於能量的增加除以光速的平方。就動態的意義而言，靜止物質所能做的功，等於將其各部分從天堂聚集起來所耗費的能量，減去在移行中所克服之諸力的阻力，以及物質各部分彼此所施加的吸引力。
42:4.12 (474.2) The existence of pre-electronic forms of matter is indicated by the two atomic weights of lead. The lead of original formation weighs slightly more than that produced through uranium disintegration by way of radium emanations; and this difference in atomic weight represents the actual loss of energy in the atomic breakup.
42:4.12 (474.2) 物質的前電子形式之存在，由鉛的兩種原子量所顯示。最初形成的鉛，略重於經由鐳射氣的鈾解體所產生的鉛；而這原子量的差異，代表了原子崩解中能量的實際損失。
42:4.13 (474.3) The relative integrity of matter is assured by the fact that energy can be absorbed or released only in those exact amounts which Urantia scientists have designated quanta. This wise provision in the material realms serves to maintain the universes as going concerns.
42:4.13 (474.3) 物質的相對完整性，乃由這一事實所確保：能量只能以玉苒廈科學家定名為量子的那些確切數量被吸收或釋放。物質界域中這項明智的設置，用以維持眾宇宙的持續運作。
42:4.14 (474.4) The quantity of energy taken in or given out when electronic or other positions are shifted is always a “quantum” or some multiple thereof, but the vibratory or wavelike behavior of such units of energy is wholly determined by the dimensions of the material structures concerned. Such wavelike energy ripples are 860 times the diameters of the ultimatons, electrons, atoms, or other units thus performing. The never-ending confusion attending the observation of the wave mechanics of quantum behavior is due to the superimposition of energy waves: Two crests can combine to make a double-height crest, while a crest and a trough may combine, thus producing mutual cancellation.
42:4.14 (474.4) 當電子位置或其他位置被移動時，攝入或放出的能量之量總是一個「量子」或其某個倍數；但這類能量單位的振動或波狀行為，全然由所涉物質結構的尺寸所決定。這類波狀的能量漣漪，是如此表現的終極子、電子、原子或其他單位之直徑的 860 倍。在觀察量子行為的波動力學時所伴隨而來之永無終止的混淆，乃起因於能量波的疊加：兩個波峰能合成一個雙倍高度的波峰，而一個波峰與一個波谷則可能合成，從而產生相互抵消。
42:5.1 (474.5) In the superuniverse of Orvonton there are one hundred octaves of wave energy. Of these one hundred groups of energy manifestations, sixty-four are wholly or partially recognized on Urantia. The sun’s rays constitute four octaves in the superuniverse scale, the visible rays embracing a single octave, number forty-six in this series. The ultraviolet group comes next, while ten octaves up are the X rays, followed by the gamma rays of radium. Thirty-two octaves above the visible light of the sun are the outer-space energy rays so frequently commingled with their associated highly energized minute particles of matter. Next downward from visible sunlight appear the infrared rays, and thirty octaves below are the radio transmission group.
42:5.1 (474.5) 在奧溫頓超宇宙中，存在著波動能量的一百個八音度。在這一百個能量顯現群之中，有六十四個在玉苒廈上被全然或部分地認知。太陽的射線在超級宇宙標度中構成四個八音度，而可見射線涵括單一個八音度，即此序列中的第四十六號。紫外線群緊隨其後，而往上十個八音度處是X射線，其後是鐳的伽瑪射線。在太陽的可見光之上三十二個八音度處，是外圍空間能量射線，它們如此頻繁地與其相聯的、高度賦能的物質微小粒子混雜在一起。從可見陽光往下，緊接著出現的是紅外線，而往下三十個八音度處是無線電傳輸群。
42:5.2 (474.6) Wavelike energy manifestations—from the standpoint of twentieth-century Urantia scientific enlightenment—may be classified into the following ten groups:
42:5.2 (474.6) 波狀的能量顯現——從二十世紀玉苒廈科學啟迪的立場來看——可被分類為下列十個群：
42:5.3 (474.7) 1. Infraultimatonic rays—the borderland revolutions of ultimatons as they begin to assume definite form. This is the first stage of emergent energy in which wavelike phenomena can be detected and measured.
42:5.3 (474.7) 1. 終極子下射線——終極子在開始取得確切形態之際的交界性轉動。這是浮現能量中波狀現象能被偵測與測量的第一個階段。
42:5.4 (474.8) 2. Ultimatonic rays. The assembly of energy into the minute spheres of the ultimatons occasions vibrations in the content of space which are discernible and measurable. And long before physicists ever discover the ultimaton, they will undoubtedly detect the phenomena of these rays as they shower in upon Urantia. These short and powerful rays represent the initial activity of the ultimatons as they are slowed down to that point where they veer towards the electronic organization of matter. As the ultimatons aggregate into electrons, condensation occurs with a consequent storage of energy.
42:5.4 (474.8) 2. 終極子射線。能量之集結為終極子的微小球體，引發空間內容中可辨明且可測量的振動。而早在物理學家發現終極子之前許久，他們無疑將會偵測到這些射線如雨般從外灑落於玉苒廈時的現象。這些短而強力的射線，代表了終極子在被減緩至偏轉趨向物質之電子組織的程度時之初始活動。當終極子聚集為電子時，凝聚發生，伴隨著由此而起的能量儲存。
42:5.5 (475.1) 3. The short space rays. These are the shortest of all purely electronic vibrations and represent the preatomic stage of this form of matter. These rays require extraordinarily high or low temperatures for their production. There are two sorts of these space rays: one attendant upon the birth of atoms and the other indicative of atomic disruption. They emanate in the largest quantities from the densest plane of the superuniverse, the Milky Way, which is also the densest plane of the outer universes.
42:5.5 (475.1) 3. 短空間射線。這些是所有純粹電子振動中最短的，並代表了此種物質形式的前原子階段。這些射線需要異常高或異常低的溫度方能產生。存在著兩種這樣的空間射線：一種伴隨著原子的誕生，另一種則顯示原子的瓦解。它們以最大的量從超級宇宙最稠密的平面——銀河——流溢而出，而銀河也是外圍宇宙最稠密的平面。
42:5.6 (475.2) 4. The electronic stage. This stage of energy is the basis of all materialization in the seven superuniverses. When electrons pass from higher to lower energy levels of orbital revolution, quanta are always given off. Orbital shifting of electrons results in the ejection or the absorption of very definite and uniform measurable particles of light-energy, while the individual electron always gives up a particle of light-energy when subjected to collision. Wavelike energy manifestations also attend upon the performances of the positive bodies and the other members of the electronic stage.
42:5.6 (475.2) 4. 電子階段。能量的這個階段，是七個超級宇宙中一切物質化的基礎。當電子由軌道公轉的較高能量層級進入較低能量層級時，總是有量子被散發出來。電子的軌道移動，導致非常確切而均一的可測量光能粒子之射出或吸收，而個別電子在受到碰撞時，總是交出一個光能粒子。波狀能量顯現也伴隨著正電體以及電子階段其他成員之作為。
42:5.7 (475.3) 5. Gamma rays—those emanations which characterize the spontaneous dissociation of atomic matter. The best illustration of this form of electronic activity is in the phenomena associated with radium disintegration.
42:5.7 (475.3) 5. 伽瑪射線——那些表徵原子物質之自發解離的流溢。此種電子活動形式的最佳例證，在於與鐳的解體相聯的現象。
42:5.8 (475.4) 6. The X-ray group. The next step in the slowing down of the electron yields the various forms of solar X rays together with artificially generated X rays. The electronic charge creates an electric field; movement gives rise to an electric current; the current produces a magnetic field. When an electron is suddenly stopped, the resultant electromagnetic commotion produces the X ray; the X ray is that disturbance. The solar X rays are identical with those which are mechanically generated for exploring the interior of the human body except that they are a trifle longer.
42:5.8 (475.4) 6. X射線群。電子之減緩中的下一步，產出各種形式的太陽X射線，連同人工生成的X射線。電子電荷建立一個電場；動引起電流；電流產生磁場。當一個電子突然被止住時，由此導致的電磁騷動產生X射線；X射線就是那個擾動。太陽X射線與那些以機械方式生、用於探索人體內部的X射線完全相同，只是略長一些。
42:5.9 (475.5) 7. The ultraviolet or chemical rays of sunlight and the various mechanical productions.
42:5.9 (475.5) 7. 紫外線，或稱陽光的化學射線，以及各種機械產物。
42:5.10 (475.6) 8. The white light—the whole visible light of the suns.
42:5.10 (475.6) 8. 白光——太陽的全部可見光。
42:5.11 (475.7) 9. Infrared rays—the slowing down of electronic activity still nearer the stage of appreciable heat.
42:5.11 (475.7) 9. 紅外線——電子活動之減緩，更接近可感知熱之階段。
42:5.12 (475.8) 10. Hertzian waves—those energies utilized on Urantia for broadcasting.
42:5.12 (475.8) 10. 赫茲波——那些在玉苒廈上被利用於廣播的能量。
42:5.13 (475.9) Of all these ten phases of wavelike energy activity, the human eye can react to just one octave, the whole light of ordinary sunlight.
42:5.13 (475.9) 在波狀能量活動的所有這十個相之中，人眼僅能對一個八音度起反應，即尋常陽光之全部的光。
42:5.14 (475.10) The so-called ether is merely a collective name to designate a group of force and energy activities occurring in space. Ultimatons, electrons, and other mass aggregations of energy are uniform particles of matter, and in their transit through space they really proceed in direct lines. Light and all other forms of recognizable energy manifestations consist of a succession of definite energy particles which proceed in direct lines except as modified by gravity and other intervening forces. That these processions of energy particles appear as wave phenomena when subjected to certain observations is due to the resistance of the undifferentiated force blanket of all space, the hypothetical ether, and to the intergravity tension of the associated aggregations of matter. The spacing of the particle-intervals of matter, together with the initial velocity of the energy beams, establishes the undulatory appearance of many forms of energy-matter.
42:5.14 (475.10) 所謂的以太，僅僅是一個總稱，用以標示發生在空間中的一群力與能量的活動。終極子、電子，以及能量的其他質量聚集體，是物質的均一粒子；在它們穿越空間的移行中，它們確實沿直線行進。光以及所有其他形式的可辨認能量顯現，由一連串確切的能量粒子所組成，這些粒子沿直線行進，除非受到引力及其他居間之力的修改。這些能量粒子的行列在受到某些觀察時看起來是波動現象，乃是由於整個空間之未分化的力覆蓋層——假設的以太——的阻力，以及相聯之物質聚集體的引力間張力。物質之粒子間隔的間距，連同能量束的初始速度，確立了許多能量物質形式所呈現的起伏外觀。
42:5.15 (476.1) The excitation of the content of space produces a wavelike reaction to the passage of rapidly moving particles of matter, just as the passage of a ship through water initiates waves of varying amplitude and interval.
42:5.15 (476.1) 空間內容物之激發，對快速運動的物質粒子之通過產生一種波狀反應，正如船隻在水中之通過，掀起振幅與間隔不一的波浪。
42:5.16 (476.2) Primordial-force behavior does give rise to phenomena which are in many ways analogous to your postulated ether. Space is not empty; the spheres of all space whirl and plunge on through a vast ocean of outspread force-energy; neither is the space content of an atom empty. Nevertheless there is no ether, and the very absence of this hypothetical ether enables the inhabited planet to escape falling into the sun and the encircling electron to resist falling into the nucleus.
42:5.16 (476.2) 原初力的行為，的確引起在許多方面可類比於你們所假定之以太的現象。空間並非空無；整個空間的天體，迴旋並向前衝行，穿越一片展布之力-能量的廣大海洋；原子的空間內容物也並非空無。儘管如此，以太並不存在，而正是這假設之以太的不存在，使有居住者的行星得以免於墜入太陽，並使環繞的電子得以抗拒墜入原子核。
42:6.1 (476.3) While the space charge of universal force is homogeneous and undifferentiated, the organization of evolved energy into matter entails the concentration of energy into discrete masses of definite dimensions and established weight—precise gravity reaction.
42:6.1 (476.3) 萬有力的空間荷是同質而未分化的，而將已演化的能量組織成物質，則必然涉及能量集中為具有明確尺寸與既定重量的分立質量——精確的引力反應。
42:6.2 (476.4) Local or linear gravity becomes fully operative with the appearance of the atomic organization of matter. Preatomic matter becomes slightly gravity responsive when activated by X ray and other similar energies, but no measurable linear-gravity pull is exerted on free, unattached, and uncharged electronic-energy particles or on unassociated ultimatons.
42:6.2 (476.4) 局部或線性引力隨著物質之原子組織的出現而變得充分運作。前原子物質在受到X射線及其他相似能量活化時，變得對引力略有回應，但沒有任何可測量的線性-引力拉力被施加於自由的、未附著的與不帶電荷的電子-能量粒子，或未結合的終極子之上。
42:6.3 (476.5) 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.
42:6.3 (476.5) 終極子藉著相互吸引而發揮功能，僅對環形的天堂-引力拉力有所回應。沒有線性-引力回應，它們因而被保持在萬有空間漂移之中。終極子能夠將轉動速度加速至部分反引力行為的程度，但它們不能獨立於力組織者或力量主管者之外，達致去個體化的臨界脫離速度，回歸雄勁-能量階段。在自然中，終極子僅在參與一顆已冷卻且垂死之太陽的終末瓦解時，才脫離物理存在的地位。
42:6.4 (476.6) 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.
42:6.4 (476.6) 終極子，在玉苒廈上不為人知，它們在達致電子組織的轉動-能量先決條件之前，要經過物理活動的許多相而減緩。終極子有三種運動：對宇宙體系力的相互抵抗、具反引力潛能的個別轉動，以及一百個彼此相互結合終極子之電子內位置。
42:6.5 (476.7) Mutual attraction holds one hundred ultimatons together in the constitution of the electron; and there are never more nor less than one hundred ultimatons in a typical electron. The loss of one or more ultimatons destroys typical electronic identity, thus bringing into existence one of the ten modified forms of the electron.
42:6.5 (476.7) 相互吸引使一百個終極子在電子的構造中保持在一起；而在一個典型的電子中，終極子從不多於也從不少於一百個。一個或多個終極子的喪失，破壞典型的電子同一性，從而使電子的十種經修改的形式之一進入存在。。
42:6.6 (476.8) Ultimatons do not describe orbits or whirl about in circuits within the electrons, but they do spread or cluster in accordance with their axial revolutionary velocities, thus determining the differential electronic dimensions. This same ultimatonic velocity of axial revolution also determines the negative or positive reactions of the several types of electronic units. The entire segregation and grouping of electronic matter, together with the electric differentiation of negative and positive bodies of energy-matter, result from these various functions of the component ultimatonic interassociation.
42:6.6 (476.8) 終極子在電子內並不描出軌道，也不在迴路中迴旋，但它們的確依照其自轉速度而散開或聚集，從而決定具差別的電子尺寸。終極子自轉的這同一速度，也決定若干類型的電子單位的負性或正性反應。電子物質的整個分隔與組群，連同能量-物質之負電體與正電體的電分化，皆起因於組成性的終極子相互結合的這些多種功能。
42:6.7 (477.1) Each atom is a trifle over 1/100,000,000 th of an inch in diameter, while an electron weighs a little more than 1/2,000 th of the smallest atom, hydrogen. The positive proton, characteristic of the atomic nucleus, while it may be no larger than a negative electron, weighs almost two thousand times more.
42:6.7 (477.1) 每個原子的直徑略大於1/40,000,000公分，而一個電子的重量稍多於最小的原子——氫——的1/2,000。帶正電的質子，為原子核所特有，雖然它可能不比帶負電的電子大，卻重了幾乎兩千倍。
42:6.8 (477.2) If the mass of matter should be magnified until that of an electron equaled one tenth of an ounce, then were size to be proportionately magnified, the volume of such an electron would become as large as that of the earth. If the volume of a proton—eighteen hundred times as heavy as an electron—should be magnified to the size of the head of a pin, then, in comparison, a pin’s head would attain a diameter equal to that of the earth’s orbit around the sun.
42:6.8 (477.2) 倘若物質的質量被放大，直到一個電子的質量等於約二點八公克，那麼，假如尺寸按比例被放大，這樣一個電子的體積將變得與地球的體積一樣大。倘若一個質子——其重量是電子的一千八百倍——的體積被放大至一個針頭的大小，那麼相較之下，一個針頭將達致與地球環繞太陽之軌道相等的直徑。
42:7.1 (477.3) The formation of all matter is on the order of the solar system. There is at the center of every minute universe of energy a relatively stable, comparatively stationary, nuclear portion of material existence. This central unit is endowed with a threefold possibility of manifestation. Surrounding this energy center there whirl, in endless profusion but in fluctuating circuits, the energy units which are faintly comparable to the planets encircling the sun of some starry group like your own solar system.
42:7.1 (477.3) 一切物質的構成，皆屬太陽系的格局。在每一個微小的能量宇宙的中心，存在著物質性存在之一個相對穩定的、相較而言靜止的核心部分。這個中心單元被賦予一種三重的顯現可能性。環繞著這個能量中心，無盡豐沛地、卻在變動不定的迴路中，迴旋著那些能量單元，而這些能量單元略可比擬為環繞著諸如你們自己太陽系這樣的某個星辰群之太陽的行星。
42:7.2 (477.4) Within the atom the electrons revolve about the central proton with about the same comparative room the planets have as they revolve about the sun in the space of the solar system. There is the same relative distance, in comparison with actual size, between the atomic nucleus and the inner electronic circuit as exists between the inner planet, Mercury, and your sun.
42:7.2 (477.4) 在原子內部，電子環繞中央質子公轉，其相對活動空間大致與太陽系空間中行星環繞太陽公轉時所擁有的相對空間相同。相較於實際尺寸而言，原子核和內側電子迴路之間的相對距離，與存在於內側行星——水星——和你們的太陽之間的相對距離相同。
42:7.3 (477.5) The electronic axial revolutions and their orbital velocities about the atomic nucleus are both beyond the human imagination, not to mention the velocities of their component ultimatons. The positive particles of radium fly off into space at the rate of ten thousand miles a second, while the negative particles attain a velocity approximating that of light.
42:7.3 (477.5) 電子的自轉及其繞原子核的軌道速度，兩者皆超出人類的想像力，更遑論其組成終極子的速度。鐳的正電粒子以每秒一萬六千公里的速率飛離進入空間，而負電粒子則達到近似於光速的速度。
42:7.4 (477.6) The local universes are of decimal construction. There are just one hundred distinguishable atomic materializations of space-energy in a dual universe; that is the maximum possible organization of matter in Nebadon. These one hundred forms of matter consist of a regular series in which from one to one hundred electrons revolve around a central and relatively compact nucleus. It is this orderly and dependable association of various energies that constitutes matter.
42:7.4 (477.6) 地方宇宙屬十進位建構。在一個二元宇宙中，存在著恰好一百種空間-能量之可區分的原子物質化；這是內巴頓中物質的最大可能組織。這一百種物質形式由一個有規律的系列組成，其中有一個到一百個電子環繞一個中央的且相對緊密的原子核公轉。正是各種能量的這種有序而可靠的結合，構成了物質。
42:7.5 (477.7) Not every world will show one hundred recognizable elements at the surface, but they are somewhere present, have been present, or are in process of evolution. Conditions surrounding the origin and subsequent evolution of a planet determine how many of the one hundred atomic types will be observable. The heavier atoms are not found on the surface of many worlds. Even on Urantia the known heavier elements manifest a tendency to fly to pieces, as is illustrated by radium behavior.
42:7.5 (477.7) 並非每一個世界都會在表面顯示一百種可辨認的元素，但它們存在於某處、曾經存在，或正處於演化過程中。圍繞著一顆行星之起源及後續演化的種種條件，決定一百個原子類型中將有多少個可被觀察到。較重的原子不見於許多世界的表面。即使在玉苒廈上，已知的較重元素也顯現飛散成碎片的傾向，正如鐳的行為所說明的。
42:7.6 (477.8) Stability of the atom depends on the number of electrically inactive neutrons in the central body. Chemical behavior is wholly dependent on the activity of the freely revolving electrons.
42:7.6 (477.8) 原子的穩定性取決於中央體內電性不活躍的中子數目。化學行為全然取決於自由轉動之電子的活動。
42:7.7 (478.1) In Orvonton it has never been possible naturally to assemble over one hundred orbital electrons in one atomic system. When one hundred and one have been artificially introduced into the orbital field, the result has always been the instantaneous disruption of the central proton with the wild dispersion of the electrons and other liberated energies.
42:7.7 (478.1) 在奧溫頓中，從來不可能以自然方式在一個原子系統中聚合超過一百個軌道電子。當一百零一個已被人為地引入軌道場域時，結果總是中央質子的瞬間瓦解，伴隨著電子及其他被解放之能量的狂亂四散。
42:7.8 (478.2) While atoms may contain from one to one hundred orbital electrons, only the outer ten electrons of the larger atoms revolve about the central nucleus as distinct and discrete bodies, intactly and compactly swinging around on precise and definite orbits. The thirty electrons nearest the center are difficult of observation or detection as separate and organized bodies. This same comparative ratio of electronic behavior in relation to nuclear proximity obtains in all atoms regardless of the number of electrons embraced. The nearer the nucleus, the less there is of electronic individuality. The wavelike energy extension of an electron may so spread out as to occupy the whole of the lesser atomic orbits; especially is this true of the electrons nearest the atomic nucleus.
42:7.8 (478.2) 雖然原子可以包含一個至一百個軌道電子，但在較大的原子中，只有外層的十個電子，才會以分明且離散的物體環繞中央原子核公轉，完整而緊密地在精確而明確的軌道上環繞運行。最靠近中心的三十個電子，難以作為分開且有組織的物體被觀察或偵測。電子行為相對於與原子核之鄰近程度的這同一個相較而言的比率，通行於一切原子之中，無論所涵括的電子數目多少。越靠近原子核，電子的個體性就越少。一個電子的波狀能量延展，可能散開到佔據較小原子軌道的全部；對最靠近原子核的電子而言，尤其如此。
42:7.9 (478.3) The thirty innermost orbital electrons have individuality, but their energy systems tend to intermingle, extending from electron to electron and well-nigh from orbit to orbit. The next thirty electrons constitute the second family, or energy zone, and are of advancing individuality, bodies of matter exerting a more complete control over their attendant energy systems. The next thirty electrons, the third energy zone, are still more individualized and circulate in more distinct and definite orbits. The last ten electrons, present in only the ten heaviest elements, are possessed of the dignity of independence and are, therefore, able to escape more or less freely from the control of the mother nucleus. With a minimum variation in temperature and pressure, the members of this fourth and outermost group of electrons will escape from the grasp of the central nucleus, as is illustrated by the spontaneous disruption of uranium and kindred elements.
42:7.9 (478.3) 最內層的三十個軌道電子具有個體性，但它們的能量系統傾向於相互交融，從電子延展到電子，並幾近從軌道延展到軌道。接下來的三十個電子構成第二個家族，或稱能量區帶，並且具遞進的個體性——對其伴隨能量系統施加更完全之控制的物質體。再接下來的三十個電子，即第三個能量區帶，更加個體化，並在更分明且明確的軌道中循環。最後的十個電子，僅存在於十種最重的元素中，擁有獨立的尊位，並因此能夠或多或少自由地脫離母核的控制。在溫度與壓力上最小的變化下，這第四個、也是最外層的電子群的成員，就會脫離中央原子核的掌握，正如鈾及其性質相近元素的自發瓦解所說明的。
42:7.10 (478.4) The first twenty-seven atoms, those containing from one to twenty-seven orbital electrons, are more easy of comprehension than the rest. From twenty-eight upward we encounter more and more of the unpredictability of the supposed presence of the Unqualified Absolute. But some of this electronic unpredictability is due to differential ultimatonic axial revolutionary velocities and to the unexplained “huddling” proclivity of ultimatons. Other influences—physical, electrical, magnetic, and gravitational—also operate to produce variable electronic behavior. Atoms therefore are similar to persons as to predictability. Statisticians may announce laws governing a large number of either atoms or persons but not for a single individual atom or person.
42:7.10 (478.4) 前二十七種原子，即那些含有一個到二十七個軌道電子的原子，比其餘的原子更容易領會。從第二十八種起，我們遇到越來越多無限定絕對之假定臨在的不可預測性。但這種電子的不可預測性，部分是由於具差別的終極子自轉速度，以及終極子未經解釋的「擠聚」癖性。其他的影響——物理的、電的、磁的與引力的——也運作以產生變化不定的電子行為。因此，就可預測性而言，原子與人相似。統計學家可以宣布支配大量原子或人的法則，卻無法對單一個別原子或人宣布法則。
42:8.1 (478.5) While gravity is one of several factors concerned in holding together a tiny atomic energy system, there is also present in and among these basic physical units a powerful and unknown energy, the secret of their basic constitution and ultimate behavior, a force which remains to be discovered on Urantia. This universal influence permeates all the space embraced within this tiny energy organization.
42:8.1 (478.5) 雖然引力是涉入於使一個微小的原子能量系統維繫在一起的若干因素之一，但在這些基本物理單位之內及之間，還存在著一種強大而未知的能量——它們基本構造與終極行為的秘密，一種在玉苒廈上仍有待被發現的力。這種萬有的影響滲透這個微小的能量組織之內所涵括的一切空間。
42:8.2 (478.6) The interelectronic space of an atom is not empty. Throughout an atom this interelectronic space is activated by wavelike manifestations which are perfectly synchronized with electronic velocity and ultimatonic revolutions. This force is not wholly dominated by your recognized laws of positive and negative attraction; its behavior is therefore sometimes unpredictable. This unnamed influence seems to be a space-force reaction of the Unqualified Absolute.
42:8.2 (478.6) 原子的電子間空間並非空無。在整個原子中，這電子間空間受到波狀顯現的活化，這些顯現與電子速度及終極子轉動完美地同步。這種力並非全然受你們公認的正負吸引之法則所主宰；因此，其行為有時是不可預測的。這種未命名的影響似乎是無限定絕對的一種空間-力反應。
42:8.3 (479.1) The charged protons and the uncharged neutrons of the nucleus of the atom are held together by the reciprocating function of the mesotron, a particle of matter 180 times as heavy as the electron. Without this arrangement the electric charge carried by the protons would be disruptive of the atomic nucleus.
42:8.3 (479.1) 原子核中帶電荷的質子與不帶電荷的中子，是由介子的往復作用維繫在一起的。介子是電子180倍重的物質粒子。若無此一安排，質子所攜帶的電荷將會瓦解原子核。
42:8.4 (479.2) As atoms are constituted, neither electric nor gravitational forces could hold the nucleus together. The integrity of the nucleus is maintained by the reciprocal cohering function of the mesotron, which is able to hold charged and uncharged particles together because of superior force-mass power and by the further function of causing protons and neutrons constantly to change places. The mesotron causes the electric charge of the nuclear particles to be incessantly tossed back and forth between protons and neutrons. At one infinitesimal part of a second a given nuclear particle is a charged proton and the next an uncharged neutron. And these alternations of energy status are so unbelievably rapid that the electric charge is deprived of all opportunity to function as a disruptive influence. Thus does the mesotron function as an “energy-carrier” particle which mightily contributes to the nuclear stability of the atom.
42:8.4 (479.2) 就原子的構成而言，電力與引力都無法將原子核維繫在一起。原子核的完整性，是由介子的交互內聚作用所維持的，介子能將帶電荷與不帶電荷的粒子維繫在一起，是因為更優越的力-質量力量，並藉著使質子與中子不斷互換位置的進一步作用。介子使核粒子的電荷無休止地在質子與中子之間來回拋擲。在一秒鐘的某個無限微小部分，一個特定的核粒子是帶電荷的質子，而下一刻則是不帶電荷的中子。這些能量身分的交替快得令人難以置信，以致電荷被剝奪了一切發揮瓦解性影響之作用的機會。介子正是如此發揮一種「能量攜帶者」粒子的功能，對原子的核穩定性作出極大的貢獻。
42:8.5 (479.3) The presence and function of the mesotron also explains another atomic riddle. When atoms perform radioactively, they emit far more energy than would be expected. This excess of radiation is derived from the breaking up of the mesotron “energy carrier,” which thereby becomes a mere electron. The mesotronic disintegration is also accompanied by the emission of certain small uncharged particles.
42:8.5 (479.3) 介子的在場與作用，也解釋了另一個原子之謎。當原子以放射性方式表現時，它們發射的能量遠比所預期的多。這種輻射的過剩，衍生自介子這個「能量攜帶者」的崩解，介子由此成為僅僅一個電子。介子的解體也伴隨著某些細小不帶電荷粒子的發射。
42:8.6 (479.4) The mesotron explains certain cohesive properties of the atomic nucleus, but it does not account for the cohesion of proton to proton nor for the adhesion of neutron to neutron. The paradoxical and powerful force of atomic cohesive integrity is a form of energy as yet undiscovered on Urantia.
42:8.6 (479.4) 介子解釋了原子核的某些內聚性質，卻無法說明質子對質子的內聚，也無法說明中子對中子的附著。原子內聚完整性之弔詭而強大的力，是一種在玉苒廈上尚未被發現的能量形式。
42:8.7 (479.5) These mesotrons are found abundantly in the space rays which so incessantly impinge upon your planet.
42:8.7 (479.5) 這些介子大量見於那如此無休止地衝擊你們行星的空間射線之中。
42:9.1 (479.6) Religion is not alone dogmatic; natural philosophy equally tends to dogmatize. When a renowned religious teacher reasoned that the number seven was fundamental to nature because there are seven openings in the human head, if he had known more of chemistry, he might have advocated such a belief founded on a true phenomenon of the physical world. There is in all the physical universes of time and space, notwithstanding the universal manifestation of the decimal constitution of energy, the ever-present reminder of the reality of the sevenfold electronic organization of prematter.
42:9.1 (479.6) 宗教並不是唯一教條的；自然哲學同樣傾向於教條化。當一位著名的宗教教師推論，數字七對自然而言是根本的，因為人的頭部有七個孔時，倘若他對化學有更多的認識，他或許會提倡這樣一種建立在物理世界的一項真實現象之上的信念。儘管有能量之十進位構造的萬有顯現，在時間與空間的所有物理宇宙中，仍存在著對前物質之七重電子組織的實相之無時不在的提醒。
42:9.2 (479.7) The number seven is basic to the central universe and the spiritual system of inherent transmissions of character, but the number ten, the decimal system, is inherent in energy, matter, and the material creation. Nevertheless the atomic world does display a certain periodic characterization which recurs in groups of seven—a birthmark carried by this material world indicative of its far-distant spiritual origin.
42:9.2 (479.7) 數字七對中央宇宙以及品格之固有傳遞的靈性系統而言是基本的，但數字十，即十進位系統，固有於能量、物質與物質造物之中。然而，原子世界的確展示某種以七個為一群重複出現的週期性表徵——一個由這物質世界所攜帶的胎記，表明其遙遠的靈性起源。
42:9.3 (480.1) This sevenfold persistence of creative constitution is exhibited in the chemical domains as a recurrence of similar physical and chemical properties in segregated periods of seven when the basic elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights. When the Urantia chemical elements are thus arranged in a row, any given quality or property tends to recur by sevens. This periodic change by sevens recurs diminishingly and with variations throughout the entire chemical table, being most markedly observable in the earlier or lighter atomic groupings. Starting from any one element, after noting some one property, such a quality will change for six consecutive elements, but on reaching the eighth, it tends to reappear, that is, the eighth chemically active element resembles the first, the ninth the second, and so on. Such a fact of the physical world unmistakably points to the sevenfold constitution of ancestral energy and is indicative of the fundamental reality of the sevenfold diversity of the creations of time and space. Man should also note that there are seven colors in the natural spectrum.
42:9.3 (480.1) 創造性構造的這種七重存續性，在化學領域中表現為：當基本元素按照其原子量的順序排列時，相似的物理與化學性質以七個為一個分隔的週期復現。當玉苒廈的化學元素如此排列成一列時，任何給定的品質或性質都傾向於相隔七個復現。這種相隔七個的週期性改變，在整個化學表中遞減地、並帶著變化復現，在較前面或較輕的原子群組中可被最為明顯地觀察到。從任何一個元素開始，在注意到某一種性質之後，這樣的品質會在六個連續元素中改變，但到達第八個時，它傾向於重新出現，也就是說，第八個化學活性元素肖似第一個，第九個肖似第二個，依此類推。物理世界的這樣一個事實明確無誤地指向祖源能量之七重構造，並表明時間與空間之造物的七重多樣性的根本實相。人也應當注意到，自然光譜中有七種顏色。
42:9.4 (480.2) But not all the suppositions of natural philosophy are valid; for example, the hypothetical ether, which represents an ingenious attempt of man to unify his ignorance of space phenomena. The philosophy of the universe cannot be predicated on the observations of so-called science. If such a metamorphosis could not be seen, a scientist would be inclined to deny the possibility of developing a butterfly out of a caterpillar.
42:9.4 (480.2) 但並非自然哲學的所有假定都是有效的；例如，假說中的以太，它代表人為統合其對空間現象之無知而作的一項巧妙嘗試。宇宙的哲學不能以所謂科學的觀察為前提。若這樣的蛻變無法被看見，科學家會偏向於否認從毛蟲發育出蝴蝶的可能性。
42:9.5 (480.3) Physical stability associated with biologic elasticity is present in nature only because of the well-nigh infinite wisdom possessed by the Master Architects of creation. Nothing less than transcendental wisdom could ever design units of matter which are at the same time so stable and so efficiently flexible.
42:9.5 (480.3) 與生物彈性相聯的物理穩定性之所以見於自然之中，唯獨是因為造物的主建築師所擁有的幾近無限的智慧。凡不及超越性智慧者，都始終無法設計出同時如此穩定、又如此高效靈活的物質單位。
42:10.1 (480.4) The endless sweep of relative cosmic reality, from the absoluteness of Paradise monota to the absoluteness of space potency, is suggestive of certain evolutions of relationship in the nonspiritual realities of the First Source and Center—those realities which are concealed in space potency, revealed in monota, and provisionally disclosed on intervening cosmic levels. This eternal cycle of energy, being circuited in the Father of universes, is absolute and, being absolute, is expansile in neither fact nor value; nevertheless the Primal Father is even now—as always—self-realizing of an ever-expanding arena of time-space, and of time-space-transcended, meanings, an arena of changing relationships wherein energy-matter is being progressively subjected to the overcontrol of living and divine spirit through the experiential striving of living and personal mind.
42:10.1 (480.4) 相對的宇宙體系實相之無盡綿延，從天堂一元能之絕對性到空間潛勢之絕對性，暗示著第一本源與中心之非靈性實相中關係的某些演化——那些被隱藏於空間潛勢之中、在一元能中被揭示、並在居間的宇宙體系層級上暫且被顯露的實相。這一永恆的能量迴圈，在眾宇宙之父中成迴路，是絕對的，並且既為絕對，在事實與價值上皆不具擴展性；然而，本初之父即使現在——一如往昔——也正在自我實現一個日益擴展的時空的、和已超越時空（time-space-transcended）的意義之舞台，一個改變中的關係之舞台，在其中，能量-物質正透過有生命的人格心智之經驗性奮力，漸進地被置於有生命的神性靈之總體控制之下。
42:10.2 (480.5) The universal nonspiritual energies are reassociated in the living systems of non-Creator minds on various levels, certain of which may be depicted as follows:
42:10.2 (480.5) 萬有非靈性能量，在各種層級的非造物者心智之有生命系統中被重新結合，其中某些層級可描繪如下：
42:10.3 (480.6) 1. Preadjutant-spirit minds. This level of mind is nonexperiencing and on the inhabited worlds is ministered by the Master Physical Controllers. This is mechanical mind, the nonteachable intellect of the most primitive forms of material life, but the nonteachable mind functions on many levels beside that of primitive planetary life.
42:10.3 (480.6) 1. 前輔助-靈的心智。這一層級的心智是不進行經驗的，在有居住者的世界上由主物理控制者所事奉。這是機械性心智——物質生命之最原始形式的不可教導的智力，但不可教導的心智，在原始行星生命的層級之外的許多層級上發揮功能。
42:10.4 (481.1) 2. Adjutant-spirit minds. This is the ministry of a local universe Mother Spirit functioning through her seven adjutant mind-spirits on the teachable (nonmechanical) level of material mind. On this level material mind is experiencing: as subhuman (animal) intellect in the first five adjutants; as human (moral) intellect in the seven adjutants; as superhuman (midwayer) intellect in the last two adjutants.
42:10.4 (481.1) 2. 輔助-靈的心智。這是地方宇宙母靈透過其七位輔助心智-靈，在物質心智之可教導的（非機械性的）層級上發揮功能的事奉。在此層級，物質心智進行經驗：在前五位輔助者中，作為次人類（動物）智力；在七位輔助者中，作為人類（道德）智力；在最後兩位輔助者中，作為超人類（中道者）智力。
42:10.5 (481.2) 3. Evolving morontia minds—the expanding consciousness of evolving personalities in the local universe ascending careers. This is the bestowal of the local universe Mother Spirit in liaison with the Creator Son. This mind level connotes the organization of the morontia type of life vehicle, a synthesis of the material and the spiritual which is effected by the Morontia Power Supervisors of a local universe. Morontia mind functions differentially in response to the 570 levels of morontia life, disclosing increasing associative capacity with the cosmic mind on the higher levels of attainment. This is the evolutionary course of mortal creatures, but mind of a nonmorontia order is also bestowed by a Universe Son and a Universe Spirit upon the nonmorontia children of the local creations.
42:10.5 (481.2) 3. 演化中的靈質心智——在地方宇宙揚升生涯裡，演化中人格之擴展中的意識。這是地方宇宙母靈在與造物聖子相聯結中的贈予。此一心智層級涵指靈質類型的生命載具之組織——由一個地方宇宙之靈質力量監督者所促成的一種物質性與靈性的綜合。靈質心智回應靈質生命的570個層級而有差別地發揮功能，在較高的達致層級上顯露出與宇宙體系心智漸增的結合容受力。這是凡人受造物的演化歷程，但非靈質級別的心智，也由一位宇宙聖子與一位宇宙之靈贈予地方造物的非靈質子女。
42:10.6 (481.3) The cosmic mind. This is the sevenfold diversified mind of time and space, one phase of which is ministered by each of the Seven Master Spirits to one of the seven superuniverses. The cosmic mind encompasses all finite-mind levels and co-ordinates experientially with the evolutionary-deity levels of the Supreme Mind and transcendentally with the existential levels of absolute mind—the direct circuits of the Conjoint Actor.
42:10.6 (481.3) 宇宙體系心智。這是時間與空間之七重多樣化的心智，其中一個面向，由七主靈各自向七個超級宇宙之一事奉。宇宙體系心智涵蓋一切有限-心智的層級，並在經驗上與至上心智之演化-神靈的層級協調，在超越性上與絕對心智之存在性層級——聯合行動者的直接迴路——協調。
42:10.7 (481.4) On Paradise, mind is absolute; in Havona, absonite; in Orvonton, finite. Mind always connotes the presence-activity of living ministry plus varied energy systems, and this is true of all levels and of all kinds of mind. But beyond the cosmic mind it becomes increasingly difficult to portray the relationships of mind to nonspiritual energy. Havona mind is subabsolute but superevolutionary; being existential-experiential, it is nearer the absonite than any other concept revealed to you. Paradise mind is beyond human understanding; it is existential, nonspatial, and nontemporal. Nevertheless, all of these levels of mind are overshadowed by the universal presence of the Conjoint Actor—by the mind-gravity grasp of the God of mind on Paradise.
42:10.7 (481.4) 在天堂上，心智是絕對的；在哈沃納，是絕限的；在奧溫頓，是有限的。心智總是涵指有生命的事奉之臨在-活動，加上多樣的能量系統，而這對所有層級與所有種類的心智皆然。但超出宇宙體系心智，要描繪心智與非靈性能量的關係，就日益困難。哈沃納心智是次絕對的，卻是超演化的；作為存在性-經驗性的，它比任何其他已向你揭示的概念都更接近絕限。天堂心智超出人類的理解；它是存在性的、非空間性的、非時間性的。然而，所有這些心智層級都為聯合行動者之萬有臨在——為天堂上心智之神的心智-引力掌握——所籠罩。
42:11.1 (481.5) In the evaluation and recognition of mind it should be remembered that the universe is neither mechanical nor magical; it is a creation of mind and a mechanism of law. But while in practical application the laws of nature operate in what seems to be the dual realms of the physical and the spiritual, in reality they are one. The First Source and Center is the primal cause of all materialization and at the same time the first and final Father of all spirits. The Paradise Father appears personally in the extra-Havona universes only as pure energy and pure spirit—as the Thought Adjusters and other similar fragmentations.
42:11.1 (481.5) 在對心智的評估與認知中，應當記住，宇宙既非機械性的，亦非魔法性的；它是心智的造物與法則的機制。然而，儘管在實際應用中，自然法則在似乎是物理性與靈性的二元界域中運作，但在實相中，它們乃是一體的。第一本源與中心是一切物質化的本初因，同時也是所有靈的第一且最終之父。天堂之父在哈沃納境外的宇宙中，只作為純能量與純靈——作為思想調整者及其他相似的片段化——親自出現。
42:11.2 (481.6) Mechanisms do not absolutely dominate the total creation; the universe of universes in toto is mind planned, mind made, and mind administered. But the divine mechanism of the universe of universes is altogether too perfect for the scientific methods of the finite mind of man to discern even a trace of the dominance of the infinite mind. For this creating, controlling, and upholding mind is neither material mind nor creature mind; it is spirit-mind functioning on and from creator levels of divine reality.
42:11.2 (481.6) 機制並不絕對地主宰總體造物；由眾宇宙組成的宇宙，就其整體而言，是由心智所規劃、由心智所造，並由由心智所施治的。然而，由眾宇宙組成的宇宙之神性機制實在太完美，以致人的有限心智之科學方法，連一絲無限心智的主宰之蹤跡都無法辨識。因為這創造、控制與托持的心智，既非物質心智，亦非受造物心智；它是在神性實相的創造者層級上、並從這些層級發揮功能的靈-心智。
42:11.3 (482.1) The ability to discern and discover mind in universe mechanisms depends entirely on the ability, scope, and capacity of the investigating mind engaged in such a task of observation. Time-space minds, organized out of the energies of time and space, are subject to the mechanisms of time and space.
42:11.3 (482.1) 在宇宙機制中辨識並發現心智的能力，完全取決於從事此種觀察任務的探究心智之能力、範圍與容受力。時空心智，由時間與空間的能量組織而成，受制於時間與空間的機制。
42:11.4 (482.2) Motion and universe gravitation are twin facets of the impersonal time-space mechanism of the universe of universes. The levels of gravity response for spirit, mind, and matter are quite independent of time, but only true spirit levels of reality are independent of space (nonspatial). The higher mind levels of the universe—the spirit-mind levels—may also be nonspatial, but the levels of material mind, such as human mind, are responsive to the interactions of universe gravitation, losing this response only in proportion to spirit identification. Spirit-reality levels are recognized by their spirit content, and spirituality in time and space is measured inversely to the linear-gravity response.
42:11.4 (482.2) 運動與宇宙引力，是由眾宇宙組成的宇宙之非人格時空機制的孿生面。靈、心智與物質的引力回應之層級，相當獨立於時間，但唯有實相之真正的靈層級才獨立於空間（無空間性的）。宇宙的較高心智層級——靈-心智的層級——也可能是無空間性的，但物質性心智的層級，例如人類心智，對宇宙引力的交互作用有所回應，僅按與靈同一化的比例而失去此一回應。靈-實相的層級是藉其靈內涵而被認知的，而時間與空間中的靈性，是依線性-引力回應而被反向測量的。
42:11.5 (482.3) 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.
42:11.5 (482.3) 線性-引力回應是非靈能量的一種定量的量度。一切質量——經組織的能量——都受制於此掌握，除非有運動與心智作用於其上。線性引力是宏觀宇宙體系的短程內聚力，略似原子內內聚的力是微觀宇宙體系的短程力一般。物理的經物質化能量，被組織為所謂的物質，無法穿越空間而不影響線性-引力回應。雖然這樣的引力回應與質量成正比，但它被居間的空間修改到如此程度，以致當表述為與距離的平方成反比時，最終結果只不過是粗略地近似而已。空間終究征服線性引力，這是由於其中有眾多超物質力之反引力影響在場，這些力運作以中和引力作用及對該作用的一切回應。
42:11.6 (482.4) Extremely complex and highly automatic-appearing cosmic mechanisms always tend to conceal the presence of the originative or creative indwelling mind from any and all intelligences very far below the universe levels of the nature and capacity of the mechanism itself. Therefore is it inevitable that the higher universe mechanisms must appear to be mindless to the lower orders of creatures. The only possible exception to such a conclusion would be the implication of mindedness in the amazing phenomenon of an apparently self-maintaining universe—but that is a matter of philosophy rather than one of actual experience.
42:11.6 (482.4) 極其複雜且看似高度自動的宇宙機制，總是傾向於對任何及所有在宇宙層級上遠遠低於該機制本身之本性與容受力的智能存有，隱蔽那創始性的或創造性的內住心智之臨在。因此，不可避免的是，較高的宇宙機制對較低類別的受造物而言，必定看起來是無心智的。對這樣一個結論唯一可能的例外，會是在一個看似自我維持的宇宙這一令人驚異的現象中，具心智性之意涵——但那是屬哲學之事，而非實際經驗之事。
42:11.7 (482.5) Since mind co-ordinates the universe, fixity of mechanisms is nonexistent. The phenomenon of progressive evolution associated with cosmic self-maintenance is universal. The evolutionary capacity of the universe is inexhaustible in the infinity of spontaneity. Progress towards harmonious unity, a growing experiential synthesis superimposed on an ever-increasing complexity of relationships, could be effected only by a purposive and dominant mind.
42:11.7 (482.5) 由於心智協調宇宙，機制的固定不變性並不存在。與宇宙體系之自我維持相聯的漸進演化之現象，是萬有的。宇宙的演化能耐，在自發性之無限中是不可窮盡的。朝向和諧統一的進展——一個疊加於關係之日益增加的複雜性之上、增長中的經驗性綜合——唯有透過一個具目的性的主宰心智所促成。
42:11.8 (482.6) The higher the universe mind associated with any universe phenomenon, the more difficult it is for the lower types of mind to discover it. And since the mind of the universe mechanism is creative spirit-mind (even the mindedness of the Infinite), it can never be discovered or discerned by the lower-level minds of the universe, much less by the lowest mind of all, the human. The evolving animal mind, while naturally God-seeking, is not alone and of itself inherently God-knowing.
42:11.8 (482.6) 與任何宇宙現象相聯的宇宙心智越高，較低類型的心智就越難發現它。而由於宇宙機制的心智乃是創造性的靈-心智（甚至是無限者之具心智性），它永遠無法為宇宙中較低層級的心智所發現或辨識，更遑論為一切中最低的心智——人類。演化中的動物心智，雖然自然地尋求神，但並非獨自且憑其自身而本然地認識神。
42:12.1 (483.1) The evolution of mechanisms implies and indicates the concealed presence and dominance of creative mind. The ability of the mortal intellect to conceive, design, and create automatic mechanisms demonstrates the superior, creative, and purposive qualities of man’s mind as the dominant influence on the planet. Mind always reaches out towards:
42:12.1 (483.1) 機制的演化，意味著並顯示創造性心智之隱蔽臨在與主宰。凡人智力構想、設計並創造自動機制的能力，顯明人的心智作為這顆行星上的主導性影響所具有的優越、創造性及具目的性的品質。心智總是伸向：
42:12.2 (483.2) 1. Creation of material mechanisms.
42:12.2 (483.2) 1. 物質機制的創造。
42:12.3 (483.3) 2. Discovery of hidden mysteries.
42:12.3 (483.3) 2. 隱藏奧秘的發現。
42:12.4 (483.4) 3. Exploration of remote situations.
42:12.4 (483.4) 3. 遠隔情境的探索。
42:12.5 (483.5) 4. Formulation of mental systems.
42:12.5 (483.5) 4. 心智性系統的擬定。
42:12.6 (483.6) 5. Attainment of wisdom goals.
42:12.6 (483.6) 5. 智慧目標的達致。
42:12.7 (483.7) 6. Achievement of spirit levels.
42:12.7 (483.7) 6. 靈層級的成就。
42:12.8 (483.8) 7. The accomplishment of divine destinies—supreme, ultimate, and absolute.
42:12.8 (483.8) 7. 神性天命——至上的、終極的與絕對的——之完成。
42:12.9 (483.9) Mind is always creative. The mind endowment of an individual animal, mortal, morontian, spirit ascender, or finality attainer is always competent to produce a suitable and serviceable body for the living creature identity. But the presence phenomenon of a personality or the pattern of an identity, as such, is not a manifestation of energy, either physical, mindal, or spiritual. The personality form is the pattern aspect of a living being; it connotes the arrangement of energies, and this, plus life and motion, is the mechanism of creature existence.
42:12.9 (483.9) 心智總是具創造性的。個別的動物、凡人、靈質者、靈揚升者或終局達致者的心智稟賦，總是有能力為有生命的受造物同一性產生一個合適且合用的身體。但人格的臨在現象或同一性的範型，就其本身而言，並不是能量——無論是物理的、心智的或靈性的——之顯現。人格形態是一個有生命存有的範型面向；它涵指能量的安排，，而這加上生命與運動，便是受造物存在的機制。
42:12.10 (483.10) Even spirit beings have form, and these spirit forms (patterns) are real. Even the highest type of spirit personalities have forms—personality presences in every sense analogous to Urantia mortal bodies. Nearly all beings encountered in the seven superuniverses are possessed of forms. But there are a few exceptions to this general rule: Thought Adjusters appear to be without form until after fusion with the surviving souls of their mortal associates. Solitary Messengers, Inspired Trinity Spirits, Personal Aids of the Infinite Spirit, Gravity Messengers, Transcendental Recorders, and certain others are also without discoverable form. But these are typical of the exceptional few; the great majority have bona fide personality forms, forms which are individually characteristic, and which are recognizable and personally distinguishable.
42:12.10 (483.10) 即使靈存有也具有形態，而這些靈形態（範型）是實在的。即使最高類型的靈人格也具有形態——在一切意義上都類似於玉苒廈凡人身體的人格臨在。在七個超級宇宙中所遇見的幾乎所有存有，都擁有形態。但這條一般規則有少數例外：思想調整者在與其凡人夥伴的續存靈魂融合之前，看起來沒有形態。單獨使者、受默示三位一體之靈、無限之靈的個人輔佐者、引力使者、超越性記錄者，以及其他某些存有，也都沒有可發現的形態。但這些是少數例外者的典型；絕大多數都具有真實無偽的人格形態，這些形態具有個別特徵，並且是可辨認的、在人格上可區分的。
42:12.11 (483.11) The liaison of the cosmic mind and the ministry of the adjutant mind-spirits evolve a suitable physical tabernacle for the evolving human being. Likewise does the morontia mind individualize the morontia form for all mortal survivors. As the mortal body is personal and characteristic for every human being, so will the morontia form be highly individual and adequately characteristic of the creative mind which dominates it. No two morontia forms are any more alike than any two human bodies. The Morontia Power Supervisors sponsor, and the attending seraphim provide, the undifferentiated morontia material wherewith the morontia life can begin to work. And after the morontia life it will be found that spirit forms are equally diverse, personal, and characteristic of their respective spirit-mind indwellers.
42:12.11 (483.11) 宇宙體系心智的聯結與輔助心智-靈的事奉，為演化中的人類演化出一個合適的物理帳幕。同樣地，靈質心智為一切凡人續存者將靈質形態個體化。正如凡人身體對每一個人類存有而言，都是個人的且具特徵的，靈質形態也將是高度個別的，並足夠地具有主宰它的創造性心智之特徵。沒有兩個靈質形態比任何兩個人類身體更相像。靈質力量監督者贊助，而隨侍的熾天使提供，那未分化的靈質材料，靈質生命得以藉此開始工作。而在靈質生命之後，將會發現，靈形態同樣是各異的、個人的，並具有其各自之靈-心智內住者的特徵。
42:12.12 (483.12) On a material world you think of a body as having a spirit, but we regard the spirit as having a body. The material eyes are truly the windows of the spirit-born soul. The spirit is the architect, the mind is the builder, the body is the material building.
42:12.12 (483.12) 在一個物質世界上，你們認為身體具有一個靈，但我們將靈視為具有一個身體。物質的眼睛真正是由靈所生之靈魂的窗戶。靈是建築師，心智是建造者，身體則是物質建築物。
42:12.13 (484.1) Physical, spiritual, and mindal energies, as such and in their pure states, do not fully interact as actuals of the phenomenal universes. On Paradise the three energies are co-ordinate, in Havona co-ordinated, while in the universe levels of finite activities there must be encountered all ranges of material, mindal, and spiritual dominance. In nonpersonal situations of time and space, physical energy seems to predominate, but it also appears that the more nearly spirit-mind function approaches divinity of purpose and supremacy of action, the more nearly does the spirit phase become dominant; that on the ultimate level spirit-mind may become all but completely dominant. On the absolute level spirit certainly is dominant. And from there on out through the realms of time and space, wherever a divine spirit reality is present, whenever a real spirit-mind is functioning, there always tends to be produced a material or physical counterpart of that spirit reality.
42:12.13 (484.1) 物理的、靈性的與心智的能量，就其本身並處於其純粹狀態而言，並不作為現象宇宙之實然者而充分地交互作用。在天堂上，這三種能量是對等的，在哈沃納是經協調的，而在有限活動的宇宙層級中，勢必會遇到物質主宰、心智主宰與靈性主宰的一切幅度。在時間與空間的無人格處境中，物理能量似乎佔優勢，但也看來是，靈-心智功能越接近目的之神性與行動之至上性，靈的相就越趨於居主宰地位；而在終極層級上，靈-心智可能變得幾乎完全居於主宰地位。在絕對層級上，靈肯定居於主宰地位。而從那裡往外，遍及時間與空間的諸界域，無論何處有神性靈實相臨在，無論何時一個實在的靈-心智在運作，總是傾向於產生該靈實相的一個物質或物理對應物。
42:12.14 (484.2) The spirit is the creative reality; the physical counterpart is the time-space reflection of the spirit reality, the physical repercussion of the creative action of spirit-mind.
42:12.14 (484.2) 靈是創造性實相；物理對應物是靈實相的時空映照——靈-心智之創造性行動的物理反響。
42:12.15 (484.3) Mind universally dominates matter, even as it is in turn responsive to the ultimate overcontrol of spirit. And with mortal man, only that mind which freely submits itself to the spirit direction can hope to survive the mortal time-space existence as an immortal child of the eternal spirit world of the Supreme, the Ultimate, and the Absolute: the Infinite.
42:12.15 (484.3) 心智普遍地主宰物質，正如它轉而對靈的終極超控有所回應。而對於凡人來說，唯有那自由地使自己順服於靈之引導的心智，才能盼望以永恆靈世界的一個不朽子女的身分，自凡人的時空存在中續存，此永恆靈世界屬於至上者、終極者與絕對者：無限者。
42:12.16 (484.4) [Presented by a Mighty Messenger on duty in Nebadon and by the request of Gabriel.]
42:12.16 (484.4) ［由一位在內巴頓執勤的強大使者應加百列之請求而呈獻。］