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The-Divine-Human-Spirit-Literary-Essay-By-Robert MMXII WWW.THEDIVINEHUMANSPIRIT.WEBS.COM "THE DIVINE HUMAN SPIRIT" (LITERARY ESSAY BY ROBERT KARL POPA - 2012): "ACCORDING TO OUR PRESENT DAY THOROUGH SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, OUR ETERNAL IN TIME AND INFINITE IN SPACE UNIVERSE / MULTIVERSE IS COMPOSED OF ELEVEN MAJOR ELEMENTS THAT FUNCTION IN A PERFECT, SEAMLESS AND UNITARY CONCEPT: 1. THE COSMIC SPACE (INDESTRUCTIBLE, ENDLESS AND TIMELESS); 2. THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM AND THE INTERSTELLAR RADIATION FIELD (CONTAINING MOLECULAR CLOUDS, INTERSTELLAR CLOUDS AND STAR NURSERIES); 3. THE NON- LIVING BURNING MATTER (e.g. ALL PROTOSTARS, ALL FUNCTIONAL PLASMA STATE STARS, THEN ALL RED GIANTS, WHITE DWARFS, PULSARS, QUASARS, NOVAE AND SUPERNOVAE); 4. THE NON LIVING EXTINGUISHED MATTER (e.g. ALL PLANETS, DWARF PLANETS, PLANETOIDS, SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES, SATELLITES, COMETS, METEORITES, ASTEROIDS, MINERALS, METAL, GAS, WATER AND COSMIC DUST), WHICH IS GENERATED BY, AND GRAVITATES AROUND NON-LIVING BURNING ENERGY COSMIC ENTITIES; 5. THE NON-LIVING COSMIC ENERGIES GENERATED BY THE LOSS OF MASS, MOSTLY IN NON-LIVING BURNING MATTER ; AND ALSO IN NON-LIVING EXTINGUISHED MATTER, [MATTER - VOLUME, MASS AND DENSITY - BEING HIGHLY COMPRESSED AND CONCENTRATED ENERGY]; ALL THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE THE LOSS OF MASS GENERATES AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (i.e. VISIBLE LIGHT, RADIO WAVES, MICRO WAVES, INFRARED HEAT RADIATION, ULTRA-VIOLET RADIATION, X-RAYS AND GAMMA RAYS)]; 6. LIVING MATTER (e.g. MICROORGANISMS, COMPLEX UNI AND MULTI CELULLAR STRUCTURES, ANIMALS, PLANTS AND HUMANOIDS); 7. BIO-ENERGETICAL-PLASMATIC-INFORMATIONAL SPHERES COMPOSED BY LIVING ENERGIES GENERATED BY ALL LIVING MATTER ENTITIES (e.g. TELEPATHY, BIO-ENERGY, BIO-PLASMA); 8. DARK MATTER - DARK ENERGY WHICH ARE SO FAR AN ENIGMA FOR THE TERRESTRIAL SCIENCE COMMUNITY; 9. ANTIMATTER / ANTI-GRAVITY (COMPOSED OF ANTIPARTICLES), AND ANTI-GRAVITY; 10. THE INTERGALACTIC SPACE (INCLUDING BOTH ORDINARY BARYONIC MATTER, AND DARK MATTER / DARK ENERGY), AND 11. THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE (THE STUDY OF WHICH IS RESERVED SOLELY FOR THE MOST PERFECTLY MORAL AND FOR THE MOST SCIENTIFICALLY AND TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED HUMAN CIVILISATIONS). THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE ETERNAL AND SEAMLESS TRANSFORMATION AND PRESERVATION OF ALL THE UNIVERSAL MATTER-ENERGY, THE LAW OF GRAVITY, THE LAW OF INERTIA, THE LAW OF SPACE-TIME GENERAL RELATIVITY, THE CONSTANT SPEED OF LIGHT, THE LAWS OF SYMMETRY, THERMODYNAMICS, ELECTROMAGNETISM, PHOTONICS, QUANTUM PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, GEOPHYSICS AND BIOLOGY; AND BY THE FOUR KNOWN UNIVERSAL FORCES: THE FORCE OF GRAVITY, THE FORCE OF ELECTROMAGNETISM, THE NUCLEAR STRONG FORCE, AND THE NUCLEAR WEAK FORCE; ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE ARE NON-CONSCIOUS BECAUSE THE INFINITE BIO-CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL-ENERGETICAL-PLASMATIC-INFORMATIONAL UNIVERSE IS AN ENDLESS EFFECT OF ITS OWN CAUSATIVE ETERNAL LAWS. NEVERTHELESS, THE ULTIMATE INHERENT, SENSITIVE AND CONSCIOUS REALITY IS THE INFINITE AND IMMORTAL SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE REPRESENTED BY THE SUPREME HYPER- CONSCIOUSNESS WHO CONTINUOUSLY, CREATES AND GENERATES AN INFINITY OF AUTONOMOUS, INDEPENTENT, DISTINCT CONSCIOUSNESSES THAT WILL CONTINUALLY EVOLVE FIRST WITHIN THE BIO-CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL / ENERGETICAL- INFORMATIONAL / PLASMATIC UNIVERSE, AND THEN THROUGH THE SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE UNTIL THEY WILL HAVE CEASELESSLY REJOINED THEIR HYPER-SPIRITUAL ORIGINAL SOURCE. THE INFINITE AND PERENNIAL BIO-CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL- ENERGETIC-PLASMATIC-INFORMATIONAL-SPIRITUAL UNIVERSE / MULTIVERSE IS GOVERNED BY THE DIVINE AND ABSOLUTE LAW OF SPIRIT OVER MATTER, MIND OVER BRAIN, AND PSYCHE OVER BODY. THE LATTER OF THE TWO UNIVERSES THAT REPRESENT THE TWO FUNDAMENTAL BIPOLAR ELEMENTS OF THE INFINITE AND ETERNAL MULTIVERSE, LIVES WITHIN, AND IS SUSTAINED BY, THE FORMER UNIVERSE, IN THE VERY SAME MANNER IN WHICH THE MIND INHABITS THE BRAIN, THE SPIRIT 1 MMXII WWW.THEDIVINEHUMANSPIRIT.WEBS.COM INHABITS THE BODY, AND HUMAN BEINGS INHABIT THEIR GARMENTS, THEIR VEHICLES, THEIR HOMES, THEIR COUNTRIES, AND THEIR PLANETS. OUR HOME SOLAR SYSTEM WITH ITS 4 TELLURIC PLANETS (MERCURY, VENUS, TERRA, MARS), 4 GASEOUS PLANETS (JUPITER, SATURN, URANUS, NEPTUNE), 5 DWARF PLANETS (PLUTO, CERES, ERIS, HAUMEA, MAKEMAKE), THE HOLY SUN, OUR SYMBOLIC FATHER - ONE OF THE 400.000.000.000 STARS OF OUR 100.000 LIGHT YEARS LENGHT, AND 20.000 LIGHT YEARS WIDTH MILKY WAY GALAXY THAT IN ITS TURN IS ONE OF THE 400.000.000.000 OBSERVABLE GALAXIES OF OUR MINUSCULE PART OF THE UNIVERSE - AND THE SACRED PLANET EARTH, OUR SYMBOLIC MOTHER, ALONGSIDE THE MOON, HER NATURAL SATELLITE, HAVE OFFERED US THE PERFECT CONDITIONS FOR BIO-PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE FOR AT LEAST THE PAST FOUR BILLION YEARS AND THEY WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO FOR THE NEXT FOUR TO FIVE BILLION YEARS, UNTIL THEIR PHYSICAL ENERGIES WILL HAVE RUN OUT AND TILL THEY BOTH WILL HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO DIFFERENT COSMIC BODIES WITHIN OUR 13,7 BILLION YEARS OLD TINY PART OF THE INFINITE AND IMPERISHABLE COSMIC UNIVERSE; (FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE UNIVERSE PLEASE READ: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe). WE, HUMAN BEINGS, HAVE EVOLVED FROM THE FRIGHTFUL, LONG, DARK, COLD NIGHT OF PAST AGES INTO FINALLY REALISING THAT OUR BIO-CHEMICAL-PHYSICAL- ENERGETIC-PLASMATIC-INFORMATIONAL-SPIRITUAL BODIES ARE A COMPLETELY DEPENDENT PART OF THE SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL COSMIC EQUATION IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES AS CONSCIOUS, SELF-AWARE, INTELLIGENT, RATIONAL, SENSITIVE AND CREATIVE UNIVERSAL BEINGS; HOWEVER, WE FOUND IT TO BE ABSOLUTELY TRUE AND CERTAIN THAT OUR INFINITE IN SPACE AND PERPETUAL IN TIME FINE-TUNED UNIVERSE IS NOT ONLY COMPOSED OF NON-LIVING ENERGIES, [i.e. COMPRESSED SOLID, LIQUID, GAS, AND PLASMA STATE ATOMIC AND SUB-ATOMIC MATTER, (THE ATOM BEING THE VERY BUILDING BLOCK OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, COMPOSED OF A VIBRATIONAL ENERGY CORE OF BOSONS, QUARKS, HADRONS, BARYONS, MESONS, LEPTONS, NEUTRINOS, NEUTRONS AND PROTONS, AND OF AN OUTER LAYER OF ELECTRONS), CONSISTING IN ENERGY, MASS AND VOLUME], THE IONIZING AND NON- IONIZING RADIATION THAT RADIATES FROM ITS OWN ENERGETIC SOURCES (i.e. VISIBLE LIGHT, RADIO WAVES, MICRO WAVES, INFRARED HEAT RADIATION, ULTRA-VIOLET RADIATION, X-RAYS AND GAMMA RAYS), THE FOUR KNOWN FUNDAMENTAL UNIVERSAL INTERACTIONS / FORCES - 1. GRAVITY, 2. ELECTROMAGNETISM, 3. THE NUCLEAR STRONG FORCE, AND 4. THE NUCLEAR WEAK FORCE; AND ALSO THE INFINITE ARRAY OF PROTOSTARS, STARS, RED GIANTS, WHITE DWARFS, NOVAE, SUPERNOVAE, GALAXIES, BLACK HOLES, DARK ENERGY, DARK MATTER, PLANETS, NATURAL SATELLITES, PLANETOIDS, SMALL SOLAR SYSTEM BODIES, COMETS, METEORITES AND ASTEROIDS; ALL THE MORE, OUR BEGINNINGLESS AND ENDLESS MULTIVERSE IS ALSO COMPOSED OF AN INFINITY OF LIVING ENERGIES SUCH AS THE BIOSPHERES - THE TOTAL SUM OF ALL ECOSYSTEMS OF OUR UNIVERSE - THE INFINITE AND SEMPITERNAL UNIVERSAL BIOTA. ANY ECOSYSTEM IS COMPOSED OF BOTH BIOTIC ENTITIES, [i.e. AUTOTROPHS (e.g. EUKARYOTES, i.e. PLANTS AND ALGAE), HETEROTROPHS (e.g. EUKARYOTES, i.e. ANIMALS - FISH, AMPHIBIANS, INSECTS, REPTILES, BIRDS, MAMMALS, AND HUMANOIDS), AND DETRITIVORES (e.g. PROKARYOTES, i.e. ARCHAEA, BACTERIA, VIRUSES, AND EUKARYOTES, i.e. FUNGI, YEASTS, MOULDS AND MUSHROOMS)], AND ABIOTIC COMPONENTS (e.g. COSMIC RAYS, LIGHT, PLASMA, PLASMOIDS, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS, ELECTRICITY, SOUND WAVES, MAGNETIC WAVES, MAGNETIC FIELDS, RADIO WAVES, GAS, WATER, SOIL, METALS, MINERALS, MOISTURE, AIR, AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR PRESSURE, AIR CURRENTS, CHEMICAL ELEMENTS, DUST etc.), THAT CAN BE FOUND EVERYWHERE IN ALL LITHOSPHERES, HYDROSPHERES, ATMOSPHERES, MAGNETOSPHERES, HELIOSPHERES / SOLARSPHERES / STARSPHERES, AND ANTHROPOSPHERES OF OUR INFINITE AND EVERLASTING MULTIVERSE. ALL ECOSYSTEMS GENERATE AN INVISIBLE BIO-ENERGETIC-PLASMATIC- INFORMATIONAL BIOSPHERE CONSISTING IN ALL THE LIVING ENERGIES EMANATED BY ALL THE INFERIOR AND SUPERIOR LIFE FORMS OF THE RESPECTIVE LIVING PLANET. THE UNIVERSAL ABIOTIC COMPONENTS SUPPORT THE APPEARANCE, BIRTH, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, SUSTENANCE, LIFE AND EXISTENCE OF ALL THE UNIVERSAL BIOTIC COMPONENTS. BIOLOGICAL LIFE IS TRANSPORTED IN THE FORM OF EXTREMOPHILE 2 MMXII WWW.THEDIVINEHUMANSPIRIT.WEBS.COM ORGANIC MOLECULES THROUGHOUT THE INFINITE AND UNENDING UNIVERSE BY ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION PRESSURE AND PLASMONIC MAGNETIC FIELDS, AND BY PLANETOIDS, CENTAURS, TROJANS, COMETS, METEORITES AND ASTEROIDS, UNTIL A SUITABLE STAR-PLANET SYSTEM ABLE TO HARBOUR BIOLOGICAL LIFE IS ENCOUNTERED, AND THE APPROPIATE CONDITIONS FOR THE BEGINNING OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ARE MET. (FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR SOLAR SYSTEM PLEASE READ: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system). WITHIN ALL ECOSYSTEMS BOTH BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC ELEMENTS CONSTANTLY INTERACT WITH EACHOTHER IN ORDER TO CREATE, MANAGE AND SUSTAIN LIFE IN ALL ITS FORMS, CULMINATING WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, INTRICATE, COMPLEX, GRANDIOUSE, INTELLIGENT, CREATIVE, CONTROVERSIAL, MYSTERIOUS, SENSITIVE, FRAGILE, AND YET POWERFUL BIOLOGICAL LIFE FORM OF ALL: HUMAN LIFE, WHICH IS BIOLOGICALLY THE UNIVERSAL DESIGN PRODUCT OF THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE IMPERFECT REALM OF NATURE, AND IS SPIRITUALLY THE INFINITELY SUBLIME CREATION OF THE PERFECT UNIVERSAL HYPERCONSCIENCE / HYPERCONSCIOUSNESS. ANATOMICALLY, THE LATEST CULTURE OF MODERN HUMAN BEINGS ORIGINATED ON PLANET EARTH SOME 250.000 YEARS AGO, REACHING FULL BEHAVIORAL MODERNITY AROUND 50.000 YEARS AGO, WHEN A HIGHLY ADVANCED EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILISATION CAME TO PLANET EARTH FROM A NEIGHBOURING SOLAR SYSTEM AND GENETICALLY IMPROVED THE NEANDERTHALS WHOM WERE THE MOST EVOLVED SPECIES LIVING ON OUR HOME PLANET
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