Meredith Sprunger's Synopsis of The Urantia Book
Synopsis of Paper 29
THE UNIVERSE POWER DIRECTORS
1. Of all the universe personalities concerned in the regulation of interplanetary and interuniverse affairs, the power directors and their associates have been the least understood on Urantia ... Including the supreme directors, they embrace the following divisions:
1. The Seven Supreme Power Directors.
2. The Supreme Power Centers.
3. The Master Physical Controllers.
4. The Morontia Power Supervisors.
2. The Seven Supreme Power Directors are the physical‑energy regulators of the grand universe. Their creation by the Seven Master Spirits is the first recorded instance of the derivation of semimaterial progeny from true spirit ancestry ... The Seven Supreme Power Directors are stationed on peripheral Paradise ... These mighty beings are the physical ancestors of the vast host of the power centers and, through them, of the physical controllers scattered throughout the seven superuniverses.
3. The Supreme Power Centers of the grand universe ... function in the following seven groups:
1. Supreme Center Supervisors.
2. Havona Centers.
3. Superuniverse Centers.
4. Local Universe Centers.
5. Constellation Centers.
6. System Centers.
7. Unclassified Centers…
They are all endowed with Third‑Source personality and disclose unquestioned volitional capacity of a high order.
4. There is a difference between Havona energy and the energies of the superuniverses. The power charge of a superuniverse consists of three phases of energy of ten segregations each. This threefold energy charge spreads throughout the space of the grand universe; it is like a vast moving ocean of energy which engulfs and bathes the whole of each of the seven supercreations. The electronic organization of universe power functions in seven phases and discloses varying response to local or linear gravity.
5. The Supreme Power Directors and all their associates, assistants, and subordinates are forever exempt from apprehension or interference by all the tribunals of all space; neither are they subject to the administrative direction either of the superuniverse government of the Ancients of Days or of the local universe administration of the Creator Sons ... But the power centers are in some way closely associated with the cosmic overcontrol of the Supreme Being. Power centers and physical controllers undergo no training; they are all created in perfection and are inherently perfect in action ... They are always on duty...never for a fraction of a second can these beings relinquish their direct supervision of the energy circuits of time and space ... To undertake to inform you further concerning the size and function of these gigantic and almost perfectly efficient power centers, would only add to your confusion and consternation.
6. The Master Physical Controllers are the direct offspring of the Supreme Power Centers, and their numbers include the following:
1. Associate Power Directors.
2. Mechanical Controllers.
3. Energy Transformers.
4. Energy Transmitters.
5. Primary Associators.
6. Secondary Dissociators.
7. The Frandalanks and Chronoldeks.
Not all of these orders are persons in the sense of possessing individual powers of choice…but all of them disclose the differential function of intelligence…The physical controllers are chiefly occupied in the adjustment of basic energies undiscovered on Urantia. These unknown energies are very essential to the interplanetary system of transport and to certain techniques of communication. When we lay lines of energy for the purpose of conveying sound equivalents or of extending vision, these undiscovered forms of energy are utilized by the living physical controllers and their associates. These same energies are also, on occasion, used by the midway creatures in their routine work.
7. 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.
8. In some respects the energy transformers are the most remarkable and mysterious of all semimaterial living creatures. They are in some unknown manner, physically differentiated, and by varying their liaison relationships, they are able to exert a profound influence upon the energy which passes through their associated presences. The status of the physical realms seems to undergo a transformation under their skillful manipulation. They can and do change the physical form of the energies of space.
9. Energy transmitters can function with regard to all forms of communicable perception; they can render a distant scene “visible” as well as a distant sound "audible.” They provide the emergency lines of communication in the local systems and on the individual planets. These services must be used by practically all creatures for purposes of communication outside of the regularly established circuits. These beings, together with the energy transformers, are indispensable to the maintenance of mortal existence on those worlds having an impoverished atmosphere, and they are an integral part of the technique of life on the non‑breathing planets.
10. Primary Associators. These interesting and invaluable entities are masterly energy conservators and custodians ...The associators are the first group of life to appear on an organizing material sphere, and they can function at physical temperatures which you would regard as utterly incompatible with the existence of living beings they are the most slavish of all intelligent creatures.
11. 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.
12. The frandalanks are created in thirty divisions, one for each form of basic universe force, and they function exclusively as living and automatic presence, pressure, and velocity gauges ... They are to the physical universe what the vast reflectivity mechanisms is to the minded universe. The frandalanks that register time in addition to quantitative and qualitative energy presence are called chronoldeks.
13. Primary Master Force Organizers are the manipulators of the primordial or basic space‑forces of the Unqualified Absolute; they are nebulae creators. They are the living instigators of the energy cyclones of space and the early organizers and directionizers of these gigantic manifestations...The Master Force Organizers withstand temperatures and function under physical conditions which would be intolerable even to the versatile power centers and physical controllers of Orvonton. The only other types of revealed beings capable of functioning in these realms of outer space are the Solitary Messengers and the Inspired Trinity Spirits.
Discussion Questions
1. When we discover the basic forms of energy as yet unknown to our scientists, how do you think this will alter our living?
2. Since the Supreme Power Centers are highly intelligent and have volitional capacity, why do we have so many destructive storms?
3. The Supreme Power Centers are living personalities; does this imply that the laws of astrophysics have a dynamic, non-mechanical behavior?
4. Energy in the Master Universe is controlled and directed by living beings; does this mean the universe is a living organism?
5. Why do you think the Supreme Power Directors and their associates are associated with the overcontrol of the Supreme but independent of the superuniverse and local universe rulers?
6. Do you think planets settled in Light and Life can use Energy Transmitters to facilitate the communication of information?
7. Is the Secondary Dissociators’ ability to supply limitless amounts of energy an assurance that the second law of thermodynamics (the progressive loss of energy) will never overtake planets?
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