Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00343)

SUN MERELY A COOLING MASS?, IS THE -- HPB





The "Adepts," who are thus forced to demolish before they can

reconstruct, deny most emphatically (a) that the Sun is in combustion,

in any ordinary sense of the word; or (b) that he is incandescent or

even burning though he is glowing; or (c) that his luminosity has

already begun to weaken and his power of combustion may be exhausted

within a given and conceivable time; or even (d) that his chemical and

physical constitution contains any of the elements of terrestrial

chemistry in any of the states that either chemist or physicist is

acquainted with.



With reference to the latter, they add that, properly speaking, though

the body of the Sun,-a body that was never yet reflected by telescope

or spectroscope that man invented-cannot be said to be constituted of

those terrestrial elements with the state of which the chemist is

familiar, yet that these elements are all present in the sun's outward

robes, and a host more of elements unknown so far to science. There

seems little need, indeed, to have waited so long for the lines

belonging to these respective elements to correspond with dark lines

of the solar spectrum to know that no element present on our earth

could ever be possibly found wanting in the sun; although, on the

other hand, there are many others in the sun which have either not

reached or not as yet been discovered on our globe.



Some may be missing in certain stars and heavenly bodies still in the

process of formation; or, properly speaking, though present in them,

these elements on account of their undeveloped state may not respond

as yet to the usual scientific tests. But how can the earth possess

that which the Sun has never had?



The "Adepts" affirm as a fact that the true Sun,-an invisible orb of

which the known one is the shell, mask, or clothing-has in him the

spirit of every element that exists in the solar system; and his

"Chromosphere," as Mr. Lockyer named it, has the same, only in a far

more developed condition though still in a state unknown on earth; our

planet having to await its further growth and development before any

of its elements can be reduced to the condition they are in within

that chromosphere. Nor can the substance producing the coloured light

in the latter be properly called solid, liquid, or even "gaseous," as

now supposed, for it is neither.



If the "Adepts" are asked: "What then, in your views, is the nature of

our sun and what is there beyond that cosmic veil?"-they answer:

beyond rotates and beats the heart and head of our system; externally

is spread its robe, the nature of which is not matter, whether solid,

liquid, or gaseous, such as you are acquainted with, but vital

electricity, condensed and made visible. And if the statement is

objected to on the grounds that were the luminosity of the sun due to

any other cause than combustion and flame, no physical law of which

Western Science has any knowledge, could account for the existence of

such intensely high temperature of the sun without combustion;



...that such a temperature, besides burning with its light and flame

every visible thing in our universe, would show its luminosity of a

homogeneous and uniform intensity throughout, which it does not; that

undulations and disturbances in the photosphere, the growing of the

"protuberances," and a fierce raging of elements in combustion have

been observed in the sun, with their tongues of fire and spots

exhibiting every appearance of cyclonic motion, and "solar storms,"

etc., etc.; to this the only answer that can be given is the

following: the appearances are all there, yet it is not combustion.



Undoubtedly were the "robes," the dazzling drapery which now envelopes

the whole of the sun's globe withdrawn, or even "the shining

atmosphere which permits us to see the sun" (as Sir William Herschel

thought) removed so as to allow one trifling rent-our whole universe

would be reduced to ashes.

HPB Blavatsky: Collected Writings VOL V, 

THST., V. 5, Sept., Oct., Nov., 1883



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