유란시아 책
I 부. 중앙우주와 연방우주들
Paper 29
The Universe Power Directors
The Universe Power Directors
29:0.1 (319.1)
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. While your races have long known of the existence of angels and similar orders of celestial beings, little information concerning the controllers and regulators of the physical domain has ever been imparted. Even now I am permitted fully to disclose only the last of the following three groups of living beings having to do with force control and energy regulation in the master universe:
29:0.5 (319.5)
Though I deem it impossible to portray the individuality of the various groups of directors, centers, and controllers of universe power, I hope to be able to explain something about the domain of their activities. They are a unique group of living beings having to do with the intelligent regulation of energy throughout the grand universe. Including the supreme directors, they embrace the following major divisions:
29:0.10 (319.10)
The Supreme Power Directors and Centers have existed from the near times of eternity, and as far as we know, no more beings of these orders have been created. The Seven Supreme Directors were personalized by the Seven Master Spirits, and then they collaborated with their parents in the production of more than ten billion associates. Before the days of the power directors the energy circuits of space outside of the central universe were under the intelligent supervision of the Master Force Organizers of Paradise.
물질 피조물에 관한 지식이 있으므로, 너희에게는 적어도 영적 존재들에 대한 대조적인 개념이 있지만;동력 지휘자들을 상상하기는 필사 정신에게 매우 어려운 일이다. 너희는 높은 실존 수준을 향한 상승 진행과정 기획에서 최상급 지휘자 또는 동력 중심들 중에서 어느 쪽과도 직접 관계하지 않는다. 너희는 어떤 드문 경우에 물리 통제관들과 관계할 것이지만, 맨션 세계에 도달할 때 모론시아 동력 감독관들과 함께 자유롭게 일할 것이다. 이 모론시아 동력 감독관들은, 지방 창조계의 모론시아 체제에서만 독자적으로 작용하기 때문에, 지방우주와 관련되는 문서에서 그들의 활동을 설명하는 것이 가장 좋으리라고 생각한다.
29:0.11 (319.11)
Having knowledge about material creatures, you have at least a contrastive conception of spiritual beings; but it is very difficult for the mortal mind to envisage the power directors. In the scheme of ascendant progression to higher levels of existence you have nothing directly to do with either the supreme directors or the power centers. On certain rare occasions you will have dealings with the physical controllers, and you will work freely with the supervisors of morontia power upon reaching the mansion worlds. These Morontia Power Supervisors function so exclusively in the morontia regime of the local creations that it is deemed best to narrate their activities in the section dealing with the local universe.
29:1.1 (320.1)
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. When the Seven Master Spirits create individually, they bring forth highly spiritual personalities on the angelic order; when they create collectively, they sometimes produce these high types of semimaterial beings. But even these quasi-physical beings would be invisible to the short-range vision of Urantia mortals.
29:1.2 (320.2)
The Supreme Power Directors are seven in number, and they are identical in appearance and function. One cannot be distinguished from another except by that Master Spirit with whom each is in immediate association, and to whom each is in complete functional subservience. Each of the Master Spirits is thus in eternal union with one of their collective offspring. The same director is always in association with the same Spirit, and their working partnership results in a unique association of physical and spiritual energies, of a semiphysical being and a spirit personality.
29:1.3 (320.3)
The Seven Supreme Power Directors are stationed on peripheral Paradise, where their slowly circulating presences indicate the whereabouts of the force-focal headquarters of the Master Spirits. These power directors function singly in the power-energy regulation of the superuniverses but collectively in the administration of the central creation. They operate from Paradise but maintain themselves as effective power centers in all divisions of the grand universe.
29:1.4 (320.4)
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. Such subordinate physical-control organisms are basically uniform, identical except for the differential toning of each superuniverse corps. In order to change in superuniverse service, they would merely have to return to Paradise for retoning. The physical creation is fundamentally uniform in administration.
29:2.1 (320.5)
The Seven Supreme Power Directors are not able, individually, to reproduce themselves, but collectively, and in association with the Seven Master Spirits, they can and do reproduce—create—other beings like themselves. Such is the origin of the Supreme Power Centers of the grand universe, who function in the following seven groups:
29:2.9 (321.1)
These power centers together with the Supreme Power Directors are beings of high will freedom and action. They are all endowed with Third-Source personality and disclose unquestioned volitional capacity of a high order. These directing centers of the universe power system are the possessors of exquisite intelligence endowment; they are the intellect of the power system of the grand universe and the secret of the technique of the mind control of all the vast network of the far-flung functions of the Master Physical Controllers and the Morontia Power Supervisors.
29:2.10 (321.2)
1. Supreme Center Supervisors. These seven co-ordinates and associates of the Supreme Power Directors are the regulators of the master energy circuits of the grand universe. Each center supervisor is headquartered on one of the special worlds of the Seven Supreme Executives, and they work in close association with these co-ordinators of general universe affairs.
29:2.11 (321.3)
The Supreme Power Directors and the Supreme Center Supervisors function both as individuals and conjointly with regard to all cosmic phenomena below the levels of “gravity energy.” When acting in liaison, these fourteen beings are to universe power what the Seven Supreme Executives are to general universe affairs, and what the Seven Master Spirits are to the cosmic mind.
29:2.12 (321.4)
2. Havona Centers. Before the creation of the universes of time and space, power centers were not required in Havona, but ever since these far-distant times, one million have functioned in the central creation, each center having the supervision of a thousand Havona worlds. Here in the divine universe there is perfection of energy control, a condition not existing elsewhere. Perfection of energy regulation is the ultimate goal of all the power centers and the physical controllers of space.
29:2.13 (321.5)
3. Superuniverse Centers. Occupying an enormous area on the capital sphere of each of the seven superuniverses are one thousand power centers of the third order. Three currents of primary energy of ten segregations each come in to these power centers, but seven specialized and well-directed, though imperfectly controlled, circuits of power go forth from their seat of united action. This is the electronic organization of universe power.
모든 에너지는 낙원 주기에 따라서 순환되지만, 하부 낙원 힘-에너지가 중앙우주와 연방우주의 공간 기능 속에서 변경된 것을 발견하는 대로 우주 동력 지휘자들이 이 에너지를 지휘하는데, 유익하고 건설적으로 적용하는 경로로 바꾸고 지휘한다. 하보나 에너지와 연방우주 에너지 사이에는 차이가 있다. 연방우주의 동력 축적량은 세 국면의 에너지로 구성돼있고, 각 국면은 10개의 분리집단으로 이뤄진다. 이 삼중 에너지 전하{電荷}는 광우주 공간에 두루 퍼져있으며;이것은 일곱 연방창조물 각각을 모두 빨아들이고 적시는, 움직이는 광대한 에너지 대양{大洋}과 같다.
29:2.14 (321.6)
All energy is circuited in the Paradise cycle, but the Universe Power Directors direct the force-energies of nether Paradise as they find them modified in the space functions of the central and superuniverses, converting and directing these energies into channels of useful and constructive application. 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.
29:2.15 (321.7)
The electronic organization of universe power functions in seven phases and discloses varying response to local or linear gravity. This sevenfold circuit proceeds from the superuniverse power centers and pervades each supercreation. Such specialized currents of time and space are definite and localized energy movements initiated and directed for specific purposes, much as the Gulf Stream functions as a circumscribed phenomenon in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean.
4. 지방우주 중심. 각 지방우주 본부에는, 넷째 계층에 해당하는 1백 동력 중심이 자리잡고 있다. 이들은 연방우주 본부에서 발산하는 일곱 동력 회로를 낮추고 달리 변경시키려고 활동하며, 그리하여 성좌와 체계들이 이바지하는 데 이 회로들을 적용할 수 있게 만든다. 공간에서 국지적 천문 이변은, 이 동력 중심들에게는 일시적 관심거리이며;이들은 부속된 성좌들과 체계들에게 효과적 에너지를 순서대로 보내는 일에 종사한다. 우주를 조직하고 에너지를 동원하는 후기 시대 동안, 창조주 아들들에게 큰 도움을 준다. 이 중심들은 인간이 거주하는 중요한 지점들 사이에, 행성 간 소통을 위하여 유용한 증강된 에너지 통로를 마련해줄 수 있다. 그런 에너지 통로 또는 계통은, 때때로 에너지 경로라고 부르는데, 한 동력 중심에서 다른 동력 중심으로, 또는 한 물리 통제관으로부터 다른 통제관에게로 가는, 직통 에너지 회로다. 이 회로는 개별화된 동력 흐름이고, 분리되지 않은 에너지의 자유로운 공간 운동과 대조된다.
29:2.16 (321.8)
4. Local Universe Centers. On the headquarters of each local universe are stationed one hundred power centers of the fourth order. They function to downstep and otherwise to modify the seven power circuits emanating from superuniverse headquarters, thus making them applicable to the services of the constellations and systems. The local astronomical catastrophes of space are of passing concern to these power centers; they are engaged in the orderly dispatch of effective energy to the subsidiary constellations and systems. They are of great assistance to the Creator Sons during the later times of universe organization and energy mobilization. These centers are able to provide intensified lanes of energy useful for interplanetary communication between important inhabited points. Such a lane or line of energy, sometimes also called an energy path, is a direct circuit of energy from one power center to another power center or from one physical controller to another controller. It is an individualized stream of power and stands in contrast to the free space movements of undifferentiated energy.
29:2.17 (322.1)
5. Constellation Centers. Ten of these living power centers are stationed in each constellation, functioning as energy projectors to the one hundred tributary local systems. From these beings there go forth the power lines for communication and transport and for the energizing of those living creatures who are dependent upon certain forms of physical energy for the maintenance of life. But neither the power centers nor the subordinate physical controllers are otherwise concerned with life as a functional organization.
29:2.18 (322.2)
6. System Centers. One Supreme Power Center is permanently assigned to each local system. These system centers dispatch the power circuits to the inhabited worlds of time and space. They co-ordinate the activities of the subordinate physical controllers and otherwise function to insure the satisfactory distribution of power in the local system. The circuit relay between the planets depends upon the perfect co-ordination of certain material energies and upon the efficient regulation of physical power.
29:2.19 (322.3)
7. Unclassified Centers. These are the centers who function in special local situations but not on the inhabited planets. The individual worlds are in the charge of Master Physical Controllers and receive the encircuited lines of power dispatched by the power center of their system. Only those spheres of the most extraordinary energy relationships have power centers of the seventh order acting as universe balance wheels or energy governors. In every phase of activity these power centers are the full equals of those who function on the higher units of control, but not one space body in a million harbors such a living power organization.
29:3.1 (322.4)
The Supreme Power Centers distributed throughout the superuniverses number, with their associates and subordinates, upward of ten billion. And they are all in perfect synchrony and complete liaison with their Paradise progenitors, the Seven Supreme Power Directors. The power control of the grand universe is thus intrusted to the keeping and direction of the Seven Master Spirits, the creators of the Seven Supreme Power Directors.
29:3.2 (322.5)
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.
29:3.3 (323.1)
These power centers and directors are brought into being by the children of the Infinite Spirit. They are not germane to the administration of the Sons of God, though they affiliate with the Creator Sons during the later epochs of universe material organization. But the power centers are in some way closely associated with the cosmic overcontrol of the Supreme Being.
29:3.4 (323.2)
Power centers and physical controllers undergo no training; they are all created in perfection and are inherently perfect in action. Never do they pass from one function to another; always do they serve as originally assigned. There is no evolution in their ranks, and this is true of all seven divisions of both orders.
29:3.5 (323.3)
Having no ascendant past to revert to in memory, power centers and physical controllers never play; they are thoroughly businesslike in all their actions. They are always on duty; there is no provision in the universal scheme for the interruption of the physical lines of energy; never for a fraction of a second can these beings relinquish their direct supervision of the energy circuits of time and space.
29:3.6 (323.4)
The directors, centers, and controllers of power have nothing to do with anything in all creation except power, material or semiphysical energy; they do not originate it, but they do modify, manipulate, and directionize it. Neither do they have anything whatever to do with physical gravity except to resist its drawing power. Their relation to gravity is wholly negative.
29:3.7 (323.5)
The power centers utilize vast mechanisms and co-ordinations of a material order in liaison with the living mechanisms of the various segregated energy concentrations. Each individual power center is constituted in exactly one million units of functional control, and these energy-modifying units are not stationary as are the vital organs of man’s physical body; these “vital organs” of power regulation are mobile and truly kaleidoscopic in associative possibilities.
29:3.8 (323.6)
It is utterly beyond my ability to explain the manner in which these living beings encompass the manipulation and regulation of the master circuits of universe energy. 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. They are both living and “personal,” but they are beyond your comprehension.
하보나 바깥에서 최상급 동력 중심들은, 오직 특별하게 건축된 (건축양식) 구체 또는 달리 적절하게 건축된 천체에서만 작용한다. 건축양식 세계들은, 공간 에너지가 이 구체들 위에 쏟아 부어지는 동안, 살아있는 동력 중심들이 그 에너지를 방향잡고 변경시키고 집중시키는 선택적 개폐기로서 활동할 수 있도록, 그렇게 지어져있다. 진화하는 평범한 항성 또는 행성에서는 이들이 그렇게 작용할 수 없다. 어떤 집단들은 특별한 이 본부 세계들을 가열시키는 일과 기타 물질적 필요에도 관여한다. 유란시아의 지식 한계를 벗어나더라도, 나는 열을 내지 않고 빛나는 빛을 골고루 뿌리는 일에, 이 계층의 살아있는 동력 인격체들이 많이 관여한다고 단언할 수 있다. 그들은 이 현상을 일으키지는 않지만, 그 빛의 보급과 방향설정에 관여한다.
29:3.9 (323.7)
Outside of Havona the Supreme Power Centers function only on especially constructed (architectural) spheres or on otherwise suitably constituted space bodies. The architectural worlds are so constructed that the living power centers can act as selective switches to directionize, modify, and concentrate the energies of space as they pour over these spheres. They could not so function on an ordinary evolutionary sun or planet. Certain groups are also concerned in the heating and other material necessities of these special headquarters worlds. And though it is beyond the scope of Urantia knowledge, I may state that these orders of living power personalities have much to do with the distribution of the light that shines without heat. They do not produce this phenomenon, but they are concerned with its dissemination and directionization.
29:3.10 (323.8)
The power centers and their subordinate controllers are assigned to the working of all of the physical energies of organized space. They work with the three basic currents of ten energies each. That is the energy charge of organized space; and organized space is their domain. The Universe Power Directors have nothing whatever to do with those tremendous actions of force which are now taking place outside the present boundaries of the seven superuniverses.
29:3.11 (324.1)
The power centers and controllers exert perfect control over only seven of the ten forms of energy contained in each basic universe current; those forms which are partly or wholly exempt from their control must represent the unpredictable realms of energy manifestation dominated by the Unqualified Absolute. If they exert an influence upon the primordial forces of this Absolute, we are not cognizant of such functions, though there is some slight evidence which would warrant the opinion that certain of the physical controllers are sometimes automatically reactive to certain impulses of the Universal Absolute.
29:3.12 (324.2)
These living power mechanisms are not consciously related to the master universe energy overcontrol of the Unqualified Absolute, but we surmise that their entire and almost perfect scheme of power direction is in some unknown manner subordinated to this supergravity presence. In any local energy situation the centers and controllers exert near-supremacy, but they are always conscious of the superenergy presence and the unrecognizable performance of the Unqualified Absolute.
29:4.1 (324.3)
These beings are the mobile subordinates of the Supreme Power Centers. The physical controllers are endowed with capabilities of individuality metamorphosis of such a nature that they can engage in a remarkable variety of autotransport, being able to traverse local space at velocities approaching the flight of Solitary Messengers. But like all other space traversers they require the assistance of both their fellows and certain other types of beings in overcoming the action of gravity and the resistance of inertia in departing from a material sphere.
29:4.2 (324.4)
The Master Physical Controllers serve throughout the grand universe. They are directly governed from Paradise by the Seven Supreme Power Directors as far as the headquarters of the superuniverses; from here they are directed and distributed by the Council of Equilibrium, the high commissioners of power dispatched by the Seven Master Spirits from the personnel of the Associate Master Force Organizers. These high commissioners are empowered to interpret the readings and registrations of the master frandalanks, those living instruments which indicate the power pressure and the energy charge of an entire superuniverse.
29:4.3 (324.5)
While the presence of the Paradise Deities encircles the grand universe and sweeps around the circle of eternity, the influence of any one of the Seven Master Spirits is limited to a single superuniverse. There is a distinct segregation of energy and a separation of the circuits of power between each of the seven supercreations; hence individualized control methods must and do prevail.
29:4.12 (325.5)
Not all of these orders are persons in the sense of possessing individual powers of choice. Especially do the last four seem to be wholly automatic and mechanical in response to the impulses of their superiors and in reaction to existing energy conditions. But though such response appears wholly mechanistic, it is not; they may seem to be automatons, but all of them disclose the differential function of intelligence.
29:4.13 (325.6)
Personality is not necessarily a concomitant of mind. Mind can think even when deprived of all power of choice, as in numerous of the lower types of animals and in certain of these subordinate physical controllers. Many of these more automatic regulators of physical power are not persons in any sense of the term. They are not endowed with will and independence of decision, being wholly subservient to the mechanical perfection of design for the tasks of their allotment. Nonetheless all of them are highly intelligent beings.
29:4.14 (325.7)
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.
1. 부{副} 동력 지휘자. 놀라울 정도로 효율적인 이 존재들은, 끊임없이 변하는 영역 에너지 상태의 늘-바뀌는 필요에 따라서, 모든 계층의 으뜸 물리 통제관들을 배정하고 파견하는 일을 맡고 있다. 방대한 물리 통제관 예비군이 소구역 본부 세계에 유지되고 있으며, 이 집결 지점으로부터, 우주와 성좌와 체계의 본부로, 그리고 개별 행성으로, 부{副} 동력 지휘자들이 이들을 주기적으로 파견한다. 이렇게 배정될 때 물리 통제관들은 신성한 조정 위원단 집행인{執行人}들의 명령에 잠정적으로 복종하지만, 그 외에는 부{副} 지휘자들에게만 그리고 최상급 동력 중심들에게만 복종할 수 있다.
29:4.15 (325.8)
1. Associate Power Directors. These marvelously efficient beings are intrusted with the assignment and dispatch of all orders of the Master Physical Controllers in accordance with the ever-shifting needs of the constantly changing energy status of the realms. The vast reserves of the physical controllers are maintained on the headquarters worlds of the minor sectors, and from these concentration points they are periodically dispatched by the associate power directors to the headquarters of the universes, constellations, and systems, and to the individual planets. When thus assigned, the physical controllers are provisionally subject to the orders of the divine executioners of the conciliating commissions but are otherwise solely amenable to their associate directors and to the Supreme Power Centers.
29:4.16 (325.9)
Three million associate power directors are assigned to each of the Orvonton minor sectors, making a total of three billion as the superuniverse quota of these amazingly versatile beings. Their own reserves are maintained on these same minor sector worlds, where they also serve as instructors of all who study the sciences of the techniques of intelligent energy control and transmutation.
29:4.17 (325.10)
These directors alternate periods of executive service in the minor sectors with equal periods of inspection service to the realms of space. At least one acting inspector is always present in each local system, maintaining headquarters on its capital sphere. They keep the whole vast living energy aggregation in harmonious synchrony.
29:4.18 (325.11)
2. Mechanical Controllers. These are the exceedingly versatile and mobile assistants of the associate power directors. Trillions upon trillions of them are commissioned in Ensa, your minor sector. These beings are called mechanical controllers because they are so completely dominated by their superiors, so fully subservient to the will of the associate power directors. Nevertheless they are, themselves, very intelligent, and their work, though mechanical and matter-of-fact in nature, is skillfully performed.
인간거주 세계들에 배정된 전체 으뜸 물리 통제관 중에서, 기계적 통제관들이 가장 월등하게 능력 있다. 활기찬 반{反}-인력 재능을 다른 모든 존재보다 더 소유하기 때문에, 각 통제관은 무시무시한 속도로 회전하는 거대한 구체들만이 필적할 수 있는 인력 저항을 지닌다. 이 통제관 가운데 열 명이 지금 유란시아에 머물고 있으며, 이들의 가장 중요한 행성 활동 가운데 하나는, 스랍 운송선들이 쉽게 떠나도록 하는 것이다. 그렇게 작용할 때, 스랍의 출발을 위한 처음 추진력을 1,000명의 에너지 전송자 부대가 제공하는 동안, 열 명의 기계적 통제관 전체가 일치하여 행동한다.
29:4.19 (326.1)
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.
기계적 통제관들은 에너지 흐름의 방향을 정해주고, 특화된 흐름 또는 회로 안으로 에너지가 집중되도록 조장하기에 충분하다. 이 강력한 존재들은, 물리적 에너지의 분리와 방향설정 및 강화{强化}에, 그리고 행성 간 회로들의 압력을 균등화시키는 일에 많이 작용한다. 이들은, 연방우주의 동력 축적량을 구성하는, 공간의 물리적 에너지 30개 중에서 21개를 조종하는 데 전문가다. 또한, 9가지 미묘한 형태의 물리적 에너지 중에서 여섯 가지를 관리하고 제어하는 데 더 많은 성과를 거둘 수 있다. 서로에 대한 그리고 특정한 동력 중심들에 대한 적절한 기술적 관계에 이 통제관들을 배치함으로써, 부{副} 동력 지휘자들은 동력을 조정하고 에너지를 통제하는 데 믿을 수 없을 정도로 큰 변화를 일으킬 수 있다.
29:4.20 (326.2)
The mechanical controllers are competent to directionize the flow of energy and to facilitate its concentration into the specialized currents or circuits. These mighty beings have much to do with the segregation, directionization, and intensification of the physical energies and with the equalization of the pressures of the interplanetary circuits. They are expert in the manipulation of twenty-one of the thirty physical energies of space, constituting the power charge of a superuniverse. They are also able to accomplish much towards the management and control of six of the nine more subtle forms of physical energy. By placing these controllers in proper technical relationship to each other and to certain of the power centers, the associate power directors are enabled to effect unbelievable changes in power adjustment and energy control.
29:4.21 (326.3)
The Master Physical Controllers often function in batteries of hundreds, thousands, and even millions and by varying their positions and formations are able to effect energy control in a collective as well as an individual capacity. As requirements vary, they can upstep and accelerate the energy volume and movement or detain, condense, and retard the energy currents. They influence energy and power transformations somewhat as so-called catalytic agents augment chemical reactions. They function by inherent ability and in co-operation with the Supreme Power Centers.
29:4.23 (326.5)
The energy transformers are the conjoint creation of the Seven Supreme Power Directors and the Seven Center Supervisors. They are among the more personal orders of physical controllers, and except when an associate power director is present on an inhabited world, the transformers are in command. They are the planetary inspectors of all departing seraphic transports. All classes of celestial life can utilize the less personal orders of the physical controllers only by liaison with the more personal orders of the associate directors and the energy transformers.
이 변형자들은, 능력 있고 유능한 살아있는 개폐기{開閉器}인데, 주어진 동력 배치나 방향설정을 따르도록 또는 저항하도록 자신을 배열할 수 있다. 이들은 또한 거대한 이웃 행성 및 별들 사이를 지나가는 강력한 에너지 흐름에 대해 행성을 절연시키려고 애쓰는 데 숙달돼있다. 이들의 에너지-변화 속성이 우주의 에너지 균형 또는 동력 평형을 유지하는 중요한 과제에서 이들을 가장 쓸모 있게 만든다. 한때는 이들이 에너지를 소모하거나 축적하는 것처럼 보였으며;다른 때에는 에너지를 발산하거나 해방시키는 것처럼 보였다. 변형자들은 각자의 영역에서 살아있는 에너지와 죽은 에너지의 “저장-축전지{蓄電池}” 잠재력을 증대시키거나 축소시킬 수 있다. 그러나 이들은 오직 물리적 및 반{半}물질적 에너지와 관계하는데, 생명의 범위에서는 직접 작용하지 않을 뿐만 아니라, 살아있는 존재들의 형체를 바꾸지도 않는다.
29:4.24 (326.6)
These transformers are powerful and effective living switches, being able to dispose themselves for or against a given power disposition or directionization. They are also skillful in their efforts to insulate the planets against the powerful energy streams passing between gigantic planetary and starry neighbors. Their energy-transmutive attributes render them most serviceable in the important task of maintaining universal energy balance, or power equilibrium. At one time they seem to consume or store energy; at other times they appear to exude or liberate energy. The transformers are able to increase or to diminish the “storage-battery” potential of the living and dead energies of their respective realms. But they deal only with physical and semimaterial energies, they do not directly function in the domain of life, neither do they change the forms of living beings.
어떤 면에서는, 모든 살아있는 반{半}물질 피조물 중에서, 에너지 변형자들이 가장 괄목할만하고 신비로운 존재다. 이들은 알려지지 않은 어떤 방법으로 물질적으로 구별됐으며, 자신의 접촉 관계를 변화시킴으로써, 자신의 연합된 현존을 통과해 지나가는 에너지에 큰 영향을 미칠 수 있다. 물리적 영역의 상태는, 이들의 노련한 조종으로 변형을 겪는 것처럼 보인다. 이들은 공간 에너지의 물리적 형체를 변형시킬 수 있고 실제로 그렇게 한다. 동료 통제관들의 도움을 받아서, 연방우주 동력 축적량의 물리적 에너지 30개 가운데 27개의 형체 및 잠재력을 실제로 바꿀 수 있다. 이들이 이 에너지 중에서 세 가지를 통제할 수 없다는 것은, 이들이 무조건 절대자의 도구가 아님을 증명한다.
29:4.25 (327.1)
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. With the aid of their fellow controllers they are actually able to change the form and potential of twenty-seven of the thirty physical energies of the superuniverse power charge. That three of these energies are beyond their control proves that they are not instrumentalities of the Unqualified Absolute.
29:4.26 (327.2)
The remaining four groups of the Master Physical Controllers are hardly persons within any acceptable definition of that word. These transmitters, associators, dissociators, and frandalanks are wholly automatic in their reactions; nevertheless they are in every sense intelligent. We are greatly limited in our knowledge of these wonderful entities because we cannot communicate with them. They appear to understand the language of the realm, but they cannot communicate with us. They seem fully able to receive our communications but quite powerless to make response.
29:4.28 (327.4)
When energy is to be diverted to a new circuit, the transmitters deploy themselves in a line along the desired energy path, and by virtue of their unique attributes of energy-attraction, they can actually induce an increased energy flow in the desired direction. This they do just as literally as certain metallic circuits directionize the flow of certain forms of electric energy; and they are living superconductors for more than half of the thirty forms of physical energy.
29:4.29 (327.5)
Transmitters form skillful liaisons which are effective in rehabilitating the weakening currents of specialized energy passing from planet to planet and from station to station on an individual planet. They can detect currents which are much too feeble to be recognized by any other type of living being, and they can so augment these energies that the accompanying message becomes perfectly intelligible. Their services are invaluable to the broadcast receivers.
29:4.30 (327.6)
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.
5. 1차 연합자. 흥미롭고 매우 귀중한 이 실재들은 훌륭한 에너지 보존자 및 관리자다. 행성이 항성의 빛을 저장하는 것과 어느 정도 비슷하게, 살아있는 이 유기체들은 양극{陽極}을 나타내는 기간에 에너지를 저장한다. 이들은 거대한 규모로 일하는데, 공간 에너지를, 유란시아에 알려지지 않은 물리적 상태로 전환시킨다. 또한 물질 실존의 원시 단위 가운데 어떤 것을 생산할 수 있는 지점까지, 이 변형을 진행시킬 수 있다. 이 존재들은 단순히 참여함으로써 작용한다. 어떤 면으로든지, 이들은 이 기능으로 고갈되거나 비워지지 않으며;살아있는 촉매처럼 작용한다.
29:4.32 (328.1)
5. Primary Associators. These interesting and invaluable entities are masterly energy conservators and custodians. Somewhat as a plant stores solar light, so do these living organisms store energy during times of plus manifestations. They work on a gigantic scale, converting the energies of space into a physical state not known on Urantia. They are also able to carry forward these transformations to the point of producing some of the primitive units of material existence. These beings simply act by their presence. They are in no way exhausted or depleted by this function; they act like living catalytic agents.
29:4.33 (328.2)
During seasons of minus manifestations they are empowered to release these accumulated energies. But your knowledge of energy and matter is not sufficiently advanced to make it possible to explain the technique of this phase of their work. They always labor in compliance with universal law, handling and manipulating atoms, electrons, and ultimatons much as you maneuver adjustable type to make the same alphabetical symbols tell vastly different stories.
29:4.34 (328.3)
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 represent an order of life which is simply beyond the range of human imagination. Together with their co-workers, the dissociators, they are the most slavish of all intelligent creatures.
6. 2차 분리자. 1차 연합자와 비교하면, 거대한 반인력{反引力} 재능을 지닌 이 존재들은 역전시키는 일꾼이다. 지역 세계 또는 지역 체계에서 물리적 에너지의 특별하거나 변경된 형태들이 다 소모될 어떤 위험성도 전혀 없는데, 살아있는 이 조직들이 끝없는 에너지 공급을 이끌어내는 독특한 능력을 부여받았기 때문이다. 이들은, 유란시아에서 거의 알려지지 않은 에너지 형태를, 그보다 덜 인식된 물질 형태로부터 이끌어내는 일에 주로 관여한다. 정말로 공간의 연금술사이고, 시간세계의 경이로운-일꾼이다. 그러나 어떤 이적{異蹟}을 행하더라도, 이들은 시공우주 지존성의 요구사항을 결코 어기지 않는다.
29:4.35 (328.4)
6. Secondary Dissociators. Compared with the primary associators, these beings of enormous antigravity endowment are the reverse workers. There is never any danger that the special or modified forms of physical energy on the local worlds or in the local systems will be exhausted, for these living organizations are endowed with the unique power of evolving limitless supplies of energy. They are chiefly concerned with the evolution of a form of energy which is hardly known on Urantia from a form of matter which is recognized still less. They are truly the alchemists of space and the wonder-workers of time. But in all the wonders they work, they never transgress the mandates of Cosmic Supremacy.
29:4.36 (328.5)
7. The Frandalanks. These beings are the joint creation of all three orders of energy-control beings: the primary and secondary force organizers and the power directors. Frandalanks are the most numerous of all the Master Physical Controllers; the number functioning in Satania alone is beyond your numerical concept. They are stationed on all inhabited worlds and are always attached to the higher orders of physical controllers. They function interchangeably in the central and superuniverses and in the domains of outer space.
29:4.37 (328.6)
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. These living barometers are solely concerned with the automatic and unerring registration of the status of all forms of force-energy. They are to the physical universe what the vast reflectivity mechanism is to the minded universe. The frandalanks that register time in addition to quantitative and qualitative energy presence are called chronoldeks.
나는 후랜달랭크들이 지성적임을 인식하지만, 이들을 살아있는 기계 이외의 어떤 것으로 분류할 수 없다. 살아있는 이 기계장치들을 너희가 이해하도록 내가 도울 수 있는 유일한 방법은, 거의 지성체와 마찬가지로 정밀하고 정확하게 일하는, 너희 자신이 만든 기계 장치에 이들을 비교하는 것이다. 그리하여 너희가 이 존재들을 상상하게 된다면, 정확성을 훨씬 더 섬세하게 갖고, 오히려 극도의 정밀성을 갖고, 엄청난 계산을 요구하는 더 까다로운 과제들을 수행할 수 있는 장치, 지성적이고 살아있는 기계장치(실체)를 우리가 실제로 광우주에 갖고 있다는 것을 인식할 때까지, 너희의 상상력을 동원해보라.
29:4.38 (328.7)
I recognize that the frandalanks are intelligent, but I cannot classify them as other than living machines. About the only way I can help you to understand these living mechanisms is to compare them to your own mechanical contrivances which perform with almost intelligentlike precision and accuracy. Then if you would conceive of these beings, draw upon your imagination to the extent of recognizing that in the grand universe we actually have intelligent and living mechanisms (entities) that can perform more intricate tasks involving more stupendous computations with even greater delicacy of accuracy, even with ultimacy of precision.
1차 으뜸 힘 조직가들은, 무조건 절대자의 원시 공간-세력 곧 기본 공간-세력을 조종하는 자이며;성운을 창시하는 자다. 이들은 공간 에너지 회오리바람을 일으키는 살아있는 선동가이고, 이 거대한 형태화를 초기에 조직하고 방향을 설정하는 자다. 이 힘 조직가들은 원시 세력을(곧 낙원의 직접 인력에 반응하지 않는 미완{未完}-에너지를) 1차 에너지 곧 유력 에너지로 변질시키는데, 영향력 있는 이 에너지는, 무조건 절대자의 독자적 지배로부터 벗어나서 낙원 섬의 인력에 지배되도록 변질된다. 그 결과로 부 힘 조직가들이 그들을 대신하는데, 이 조직가들은 1차 단계로부터, 2차 곧 인력-에너지 단계를 거쳐서 에너지 변질 과정을 계속한다.
29:5.5 (329.5)
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. These force organizers transmute primordial force (pre-energy not responsive to direct Paradise gravity) into primary or puissant energy, energy transmuting from the exclusive grasp of the Unqualified Absolute to the gravity grasp of the Isle of Paradise. They are thereupon succeeded by the associate force organizers, who continue the process of energy transmutation from the primary through the secondary or gravity-energy stage.
29:5.6 (329.6)
Upon the completion of the plans for the creation of a local universe, signalized by the arrival of a Creator Son, the Associate Master Force Organizers give way to the orders of power directors acting in the superuniverse of astronomic jurisdiction. But in the absence of such plans the associate force organizers continue on indefinitely in charge of these material creations, even as they now operate in outer space.
29:5.7 (329.7)
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.