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The Universe is constituted of all pervading and all prevailing energy. This energy is heterogeneous, discontinuous. It is complex in that it is composed of three unlike elements or aspects, namely, mass, motion and duration or time, which are themselves discontinuous, atomic, unitary (and indivisible) in units that are indivisible and thereby quantitative numerically, in numbers that are the dimensions of any quantities of them.

     These three elements or aspects organize themselves into events which constitute, in their myriad diverse magnitudes and proportions, the entire subject-matter of objective experience. Taken each in its entirety, they are: infinite substance, infinite power (substance in motion) and infinite time — eternity — the rhythm of power. Taken all together in their infinite dimensions they constitute the infinite and absolute event, transcending all finite experience.

     Human experience is of necessity finite. Therefore not all events can be experienced. The absolute event can be experienced only in part, in the form of lesser events. At the other extreme there are events so minute that each of them can be experienced only as a whole and never in any fractional part. Such minute events have an over-all dimension and are called quanta. Each of them is like any other so far as the quantity of energy is concerned, but they differ, one from another in their composition, in the ratios or proportions in which their three elements or aspects are composed. By reason of this compositional or qualitative diversity of the quanta, these elementary events can have other than aggregative relationships. They are capable of being interrelated reciprocally and thereby organized in perhaps infinite magnitudes and varieties, in the myriad measurable events that constitute objective experience.

     Unlike the quanta of which they are composed, these objective events are highly diverse in their over-all magnitudes. But, like the quanta themselves, they possess qualitative diversity in perhaps infinite degree, according to the ratios and proportions in which their three elements or aspects are composed.