My Friend:

In this letter I would like to introduce you to the multilevelate reality concept of unitence, including the localizations of unitence known as unitentions. Unitence is an example of a structonic model but is not a part of the unified MR model, which I am presenting to you through the various courses in structonics.

Phases of Unitence

In order to be a unifier, a reality must possess within its being some agency that causes its associated unitants to respond to it, patterning their individual and collective beings in echoing similitude of that of the unifier. This agency of the unifier is called unitence.

Unitants, also, possess unitence, though in a reactional sense rather than in the activational sense of the unifier. Unitence in unitants is called unitivence, or unitivity; the unitants, accordingly described as unitivent or unitivistic, are called unitivons. In their unital role as unitants, they are referred to as unitivates (a functional term). The unifier's activational manifestation of unitence is called unipotence, or unipotivity the unifier, therefore, described as unipotent or unipotistic, is called a unipoton. In its unital function as unifier, it is referred to as the unipotate. Since a triatal focalate is a unifier (of its multo-unity) (see letter #6), any focalate is a unipotate over all of its submultiatons (multo-unital unitants), which thus function as unitivates.

You might wonder whether the concept of unitence displaces the role of the diffluate as the medium-of-influence between focalatic unifier and submulto-unital unitant. No. Unitence is a single, golden thread winding through focalate, diffluate, multiate, and submultiaton alike, joining them together as a cohesive whole. Unitence facilitates the focalate-diffluate junction as well as the diffluate-multiate interface. Unitence enables the unifier to guide and the unitant to follow in the harmony of the unity. As the unseen distributor of unity to a vast universe of things and beings high and low, simple and complex, unitence is unity.

The word, Deity, as employed in The URANTIA Book, is a multiply-used term, a linguistic entranceway to a cosmological concept matrix located far ahead of the current capabilities of Urantia's language and concept base. The writers of The URANTIA Book have of necessity applied this single appellation to multiple related meanings. Deity, in The URANTIA Book, variously signifies, for example: 1) a high reality (called unitence in MR) visualizable as unity (1138:2; 1282:5); 2) a being or reality (called unipoton in MR) possessing or manifesting this high reality (2:2-4:1; 110:7-8); or 3) a rank or function (called unipotate in MR) associated with this high reality or being (351:3). Two unambiguous Deity-related URANTIA Book terms are divinity (multilevelate reality's unitivity or unitivence) and divine (MR's unitivistic or unitivent).

Unitentions

I mentioned in my letter #3 to you that ultimately there is only one unitence, or Deity, and that it cascades in fluid featurelessness down from infinity upon and through all things (refer to letter #3 for more on Deity). But the universal unitence can localize by associating with a non-unitent reality--otherwise known as an isotence, or isoton, also called an isate. An isotence that is such a medium of manifestation of unitence is called a uniality. The total reality of a combined unitence and uniality is called a unitron.

Any unifier or unitant is a unitron. The localization of pure unitence in a unitron is called a unitention, being a unitpotention or unitivention as it is a localization of unipotence or unitivence, respectively. A unitron is either a unipoton or unitivon as its unitention is a unipotention or unitivention, respectively. Thus any unifier, unitant, prototon, synthoton, or versoton is a unitron possessing its own individual localization of unitence. An isotence that is not a uniality--that is, that is not associated with a unitence in and as a unitron--is called an inchoality.

One can visualize unitence (Deity) as an elastic tension that tends to pull together isotons (non-Deity). Without unialities inside its elastic squeeze, a potentially localizing, or unitentionizing, unitence would collapse upon itself and disappear as a localization of unitence, a phenomenon known as deunitentionization, or unitent delocalization--more specifically, deunitiventionization or deunipotentionization.

I sometimes refer to "a" unitence, implying localization--one unitence, as contrasted with another unitence--even though unitence is one non-localized, universal unity. For to the observation of non-unitences, unitence (Deity) can individuate as a manifestation of apparently non-unialitized unitence: pure unitence. It accomplishes this localized diminishment of quantitative--but not qualitative--universality through association with what is called a unitent uniality--the equivalent of a uniality that, to non-unitences, is itself near enough to the estate of unitence to be indistinguishable from the universal unitence of its association.

Until they become associated with isotonic unialities, thereby becoming unialitized unitentions, however, such unitentions, known as free unitentions, do not function in the planes of reality as we know it--in non-unitent, or isotonic, reality. The universal direction of reality movement, or association, is unitenceward for isotons and isotonward for unitences.

A unitention, whether free or unialitized, is an individuation of pure unitence (Deity) and (qualitatively) is to unqualified unitence as a drop of water is to the sea. It is unitence, and it is a unitence. A Thought Adjuster, as described in The URANTIA Book, is a unitention, free until unitronized through personalization by fiat of the Universal Father or by temporary or permanent association with a mortal or post-mortal uniality (realities of mind and body) through association with the mortal or post-mortal personality. In enabling the mortal of association to be a unitant or submultiaton in unities and triates at the level of the local universe or higher, even up to the supreme level, the Adjuster functions as a unitivention, the endowment of divinity to the mortal enabling the mortal to unify under the unipotence, or Deity, of the unipotatal unifier or focalate.

To visualize unitentions, one can imagine sucking small bubbles of air into various areas of a large, thin sheet of rubber. This creates bobbing, balloonlike spheres, which one then twists into stability, trapping the air inside them. The rubber sheet in this analogy is undifferentiated unitence. Each encompassing rubber sphere is a unitention, a localization of unitence, regardless of whether the unitention is a unipotention or unitivention. The air inside a given sphere, which gives form and identity to that individual unitention, is the unitention's uniality. Combined air and rubber sphere is the unitron. Unitent delocalization is visualized as one of the bubbles being either untwisted or not twisted completely, the air escaping, and the thin rubber of the former sphere thickening and returning to its previous unstrained, unassociated phase.

Structonic Modeling

The substance of this discussion of unitence-related phenomena is a typical structonic model. Developmental structonic modeling typically involves two alternating phases: 1) a radiative phase, or radioceptive phase, involving the creation of new elements, called radiocepts, for use in the model, and 2) a gravitative phase, or gravioceptive phase, where the new elements of the radioceptive phase are consolidated into the body of the developing structonic model, their consolidations being called graviocepts. You will see this pattern repeatedly in the comprehensive structonic model of multilevelate reality gradually being presented to you. The pattern of alternating radiation and gravitation is the universal outbreathing and inbreathing, the dual cycle of creative diversification of pre-existent unity and consummative consolidation of post-unity taking place throughout the universes in all processes great and small.

My next letter to you will be the final example of structonic modeling and will discuss trinates. As this current letter generated radiocepts involving unitence, the next letter will develop graviocepts that weave together the structonic concept of triates with the structonic model of unitence to produce multilevelate insight into the phenomena described in The URANTIA Book as trinities.