My Friend:

In this letter I would like to introduce you to the multilevelate reality concept of expandence and its two cycles of trans-estatism--also to the two phases of a trans-estatal cycle, known as transcendence and immanence.

Trans-Estatism

Let us consider two statuses of being, each of which we can refer to as an estate. A levelate, for example, can be an estate. So, too, can a dimension (i.e. the physical, mindal, or spirital dimension). Through the power of a mechanism called trans-estatism, a reality that occupies a given estate can realize--by a technique of functional alignment with a reality occupying another estate--existence in that other estate, as well as in the estate it already occupies. The reality that is thus expanding its estates is called the primary reality and its estate the primary estate, while the other reality, the secondary reality, occupies the secondary estate.

In discussing an inter-estatal transaction, one can refer to the containing estate or to the contained reality. For example, in the situation where reality 1 in estate 1 trans-estatizes to estate 2 through alignment with reality 2, one can say that: 1) reality 1 trans-estatizes to estate 2; 2) reality 1 trans-estatizes to reality 2; 3) estate 1 trans-estatizes to estate 2; or 4) estate 1 trans-estatizes to reality 2. Though the generality could be eliminated through prefixes, it seems at present to be intuitively useful; also, it can extend meaning into several applicable domains at once. Ambiguity can be avoided, where desired, through context and phrasing.

A more problematic class of ambiguity accompanies the use of a relationally oriented verb that designates both: 1) an act that occurs and then is ended, and 2) a relationship ensuing as a consequence of that act. Consider penetrate. A wire penetrates a wall. Penetrate can refer to 1) the instantaneous act of the wire piercing the wall, or 2) the ensuing, post-actional relationship where the wire comprises a structural intersection of the wall. We can employ the prefix, initio, to designate the initial act and subso to identify the ensuing relationship. The wire first initio-penetrates the wall, then ceases that action and takes up a subsequent relationship of subso-penetrating the wall.

Some verbic relationships are static; i.e., the wire subso-penetrating the wall. Others are dynamic, as one person supporting another. The prefixes stato and dyno differentiate between these two cases. Thus, after the wire once initio-penetrates the wall, it then subso-penetrates, or stato-subso-penetrates, it. The person, however, who, after first initio-supporting the other person, continues the subso-supporting, is dyno-supporting the other person. A dyno-relationship, even a dyno-subso-relationship, is really a continually recurring initio-relationship. All personal, or volitional, relationships are dyno-relationships.

Trans-estatism exists in either of two cycles. In one cycle, one of the two realities is primary, attaining to function in the estate of the other reality and as the other reality. In the remaining cycle, the roles are reversed, the other reality being the primary reality. Both complementary cycles of trans-estatism must exist in order for either to exist, a requirement known as the law of expandent completion. Expandence refers to the simultaneous existence of both cycles of trans-estatism. Trans-estatism is pseudo-expandence.

Each cycle of trans-estatism encompasses two phases, or terminants. One can visualize a trans-estatal cycle geometrically, as a directed line extending from the center of one sphere, the primary estate of that cycle, to the center of another sphere, the secondary estate of that cycle. One terminant of such a schematicized trans-estatal cycle is represented by the point where the trans-estatal line exits the boundary of the primary estate and is called exo-estatism, which signifies attaining to function outside of one's primary estate. The second terminant, represented by the point where the trans-estatal line enters the boundary of the secondary estate, is called endo-estatism, which means attaining to function inside a secondary estate. A terminant can also be referred to as pseudo-trans-estatism. The terminantial verb forms are exo-estatize and endo-estatize, while the verb form of trans-estatism is trans-estatize.

Exo-estatism can also be referred to as transcendence, whose verb form is transcend. Endo-estatism is immanence, whose verb form is immanend. Since exo-estatism is always with respect to one's primary estate, you can see that one does not transcend an estate in which one has no part. Expandence, that is, symmetrical, duo-cycled trans-estatism, is the multiplication of the number of estates in a given reality; i.e., expansion of the boundaries of that reality. Multi-estatism, as in multilevelence or multidimensionalism, refers to the realities of the multiple estates of expandence or trans-estatism as a single, multi-estatal reality.

Unital Translevelence

Translevelence, whose verb form is translevelate, is trans-estatism applied to a levelatic estatism, where levelates are estates. (Other trans-estatisms might be, for example, trans-dimensionalism, where dimensions are estates). Unital translevelence is translevelence applied to the unity mechanism. One cycle of unital translevelence is unifier-unitant translevelence, in which a unifier also functions in the estate of its unitant (or unitants), through alignment with its unitant (or unitants). The other cycle of unital translevelence is unitant-unifier translevelence, in which a unitant (or unitants) also functions at the levelate of its (their) unifier through alignment with its (their) unifier.

Levelatic expandence, or expandolevelence, refers to the simultaneous existence of both cycles of translevelence; that is, to unifier-unitant/unitant-unifier translevelence. In accordance with the law of expandent completion, a unifier cannot attain to function at the levelate of a unitant and as a unitant unless the unitant attains to function at the levelate of the unifier and as the unifier, and vice versa.

Visualizing Unital Translevelence

Let us put these concepts of expandence and trans-estatism to work in a levelatic example; that is, concerning expandolevelence and its cyles of translevelence, with the latter's terminants of exolevelence and endolevelence. Imagine, if you will, Michael of Nebadon as a local-universe-level unifier and the mortal planetary humans of Nebadon as corresponding planetary-level unitants.

Years pass, eons go by, and the unity progressively experientializes. Each generation exceeds its predecessors in unification. Harmony appears and grows. Michael and his children are one. Has he attained to them--or have they attained to him?

It is both. For that is the mirror-cycled nature of trans-estatism. Eyes attuned to the human, unitantial cycle perceive each mortal child rising above the earthly estate. This is transcendence. Exolevelence. Dyno-exolevelence. And they see each mortal child and the variegated collectivenesses thereof attaining to the levelate of local universe significance and becoming the presence of Michael of Nebadon. This is immanence. Endolevelence. Dyno-endolevelence.

But eyes on high, attuned to the creatorial, unifier cycle perceive Michael breaking free of the bounds of his local universe estate. This is transcendence. Exolevelence. Dyno-exolevelence. And they recognize Michael entering into the levelate of planetary mortal significance and living in and as each planetary child and also in and as the supersummativeness of their versotonic conjoinings. This is immanence. Endolevelence. Dyno-endolevelence.

Translevelence--pseudo-expandolevelence--or any other trans-estatism is not a movement from one estate to another, but rather a linking of multiple estates as seen from the perspective of one of the estates involved. The portrayal in The URANTIA Book of the eternal and divine purpose (364:4-365:5) is a description of an expandent mechanism, or expandate. Especially revealing, in this light, is the specification of eternity as a cycle and the endless purpose as an endless circle, a cycle of eternity in some way synchronized with the transient material cycles of time (364:6-365:2).

Triatal Translevelence

Any reality is created as a multo-unity by and in its triate of identity. Let us look at the world through the eyes of a unitant in a multo-unity. Visible to our gaze are our co-unitants as they function in various situations. To our direct senses they are the unital prototons--complete, independent realities. But there gradually experientializes in our minds increasing awareness of the versotonic realities--the roles of the prototons singly and in combination as committed, maturing versotonic realities of the unity. And as we perceive this versotonicity, we thereby espy the synthotonic oneness of the unitants at the synthoplanic levelate of the unity. Thus we recognize the versotons as specialized presences of the prototons.

Within the unity, the unital protoplane is the ground on which we, as unital prototons, walk with sure feet. Here spreads the entire sensible unital universe. Here tread men and women; here spin dust motes; here echo musical notes: realities in unassociated phases.

The versoplane is the highest mountain in our unital universe, which we never ascend as independent prototons but scale only as committed unity members and associations. Its lofty precincts are attained only as an inner experience, beyond the senses--for prototonic versotonization is an interlinking process, where portions of each indivisible prototon are combined as the indivisible versotons.

The synthoplane is the residing place of the absolute and (directly) unknowable oneness which, in ways beyond our (unital) comprehension, makes the scaling of the versoplane possible. The realities of the versoplane, the versotons, are superunitally derived, the realitization of prototonically unimaginable harmonies and synergies that emerge from us individually and jointly in magical ways.

A triate can more properly be referred to as a triate-unity, for every triate is an identifying triate, within whose being arises an identified multo-unity. From within our unity, the blue sky above us is the plumblessness of the triate of identity of which our multiatic proto-unital universe is only a part.

To imagine, from our vantage in the unital protoplane or even from the unital versoplane, that we--localized realities that are contained within that blue vastness--could ever attain that vastness in our beings is a high thought indeed. For in the identifying triate of the unity, our whole unital versate is only the periphate--one specialized part--of the triatal versate.

But a unity's unitantial prototons find themselves, under some unseen influence, developing harmony in their roles as the versotons and bringing out, in their versotonically unified diversity, synergistic and transcendent realities. This is the influence of the unifier. The unifier is invisible--in a sense is the blue, encompassing heavens, beyond the direct attainment of the unitants. But through their response to the unifier, the unitants transcend the multo-unity, realizing in their unity the estate of the unifier. And the unifier to which the unitants attain is the focalate of the unity's triate of identity.

Taking Stock

This letter concludes your course in structonics and your basic introduction to multilevelate reality. The letters you have received on homolevelate triates (letter #2), homolevelate unities (letter #3), heterolevelate unities (letter #4), heterolevelate triates (letter #5), and expandence (letter #6) cover the field of structonics, also referred to as pure multilevelate reality. It is specified as pure because it is based on independent observation and thought and, though inspired in part by URANTIA Book teaching, is not dependent on The URANTIA Book for its development or forced in any way to fit or accommodate the URANTIA Book or any other model.

More detailed instruction on structonics--for example, vectorial analyses of the versoplane--is available in "The Diamond Ladder," the first chapter of my book, The Multilevelate Universe, which is the seminal work on multilevelate reality. "The Diamond Ladder" will be supplied to those persons electing to pursue advanced study, specifically genonics, as described below.

You will receive two more letters, one about unitence and one about trinities, in connection with completing this course in structonics. These will not be a part of the structonics instruction, but rather examples of structonic models. A structonic model is a conceptual mechanism built entirely or in part by the tools and techniques of structonics. Although employing the standard structonic tools, it can introduce new qualities and develop structonic extensions--specialized complements to the standard structonics suite.

From this point on, my multilevelate reality instruction to you will largely comprise structonic modeling. The models will be steps on a conceptual stairway converging to a distant target. As the weaving of the overall model proceeds, the mesh will be drawn finer, the pattern increasingly guided, elements introduced to reach pre-determined goals, complex knots fashioned to pre-existing specifications.

The ultimate goal will be a unified model of reality; more specifically, a multilevelate reality supermodel capable of generating the URANTIA Book cosmology through a rational, systematic, and coherent set of explained principles and relationships.

In a way, all of this will be structonics--in the sense that structonics will do much of the modeling work. It will be applied structonics, as contrasted with theoretical structonics the use of structonics, rather than the study of structonics. Structonics, in its larger sense, is a synonymn for multilevelate reality.