Paper 42 invitation for study and request for a professor

130:7.4 (1439.2)... The motion of time is only revealed in relation to something which does not move in space as a time phenomenon.

Isn't this stating, in somewhat disguised fashion, that to properly understand and account for the passage of time, an observer or measuring device needs to be in the same inertial frame of reference as the clock or object undergoing change?

Or is it rather that the observer or measuring device must be in the same inertial frame of reference as Paradise?

130:7.6 (1439.4)There are seven different conceptions of space as it is conditioned by time. Space is measured by time, not time by space.

Are those "seven different conceptions of space" the same or otherwise related to the "seven cosmic dimensions" mentioned soon afterward?

130:7.6 (1439.4)... The nearer consciousness approaches the awareness of seven cosmic dimensions, the more does the concept of potential space approach ultimacy.

Since the revelators don't specifically say what those 7 cosmic dimensions are, we apparently need to do some homework and employ some thought and reasoning. Is it possible that those 7 cosmic dimensions have some relation to the Solitary Messenger's discourse on personality and survival?

112:1.5 (1226.9)Personality has a perfected range of cosmic dimensional performance. The dimensions of finite personality are three, and they are roughly functional as follows:

1. Length represents direction and nature of progression—movement through space and according to time—evolution.
2. Vertical depth embraces the organismal drives and attitudes, the varying levels of self-realization and the general phenomenon of reaction to environment.
3. Breadth embraces the domain of co-ordination, association, and selfhood organization.

It seems that each of those could be interpreted to apply to non-personalized reality also. Number 1 would involve the position and trajectory of particles, forces and energy. Number 2 would involve momentum and gravity. Number 3 would take into account multi-body interactions.

112:1.9 (1226.13)The type of personality bestowed upon Urantia mortals has a potentiality of seven dimensions of self-expression or person-realization. These dimensional phenomena are realizable as three on the finite level, three on the absonite level, and one on the absolute level. On subabsolute levels this seventh or totality dimension is experiencible as the fact of personality. This supreme dimension is an associable absolute and, while not infinite, is dimensionally potential for subinfinite penetration of the absolute.

112:1.10 (1226.14)The finite dimensions of personality have to do with cosmic length, depth, and breadth. Length denotes meaning; depth signifies value; breadth embraces insight—the capacity to experience unchallengeable consciousness of cosmic reality.

Could it be that the 3 dimensions of personality "performance" expand into 7 dimensions of personality "expression or realization" by means of acquirement or attainment? By that I mean that as a person develops at least some measure of finality of status or condition, the possibilities for further acquirement or attainment increase?

If that is the case, then the career of an ascender would seem to parallel what we are told about the emergence of the Supreme Being in terms of cosmic dimensional expression, realization and mastery in ways that we can eventually comprehend. The implication is that those 7 dimensions of self-expression or person-realization might apply to the Supreme Being also, though it might be great mistake to presume that they in any way limit the possibilities of the Supreme Being.

Of course, these are just thoughts, explorations or temporary proposals used merely for study purposes. It would be a grave mistake to give any of this the status of claims.

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