From: "christinaleestemaker" <christinaleestemaker@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Theos-World Re: Koot Hoomi mentions obscuration
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:08:11 -0000
Can anybody declare, why there are so total different Letters of that
Masters?
I have the book Mahatma letters to A.P Sinnett compiled by A.T.Barker
3 edition.There is no letter 93b
Christina.
--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "krsanna" <timestar@...> wrote:
>
> Koot Hoomi mentions obscuration and magnetizing principles in
letter
> 93B and some factors of change that subsequently became important
> after 19000. Sunspots that began increasing in 1900 and solar
> activity are especially pertinent to earth changes.
>
> Krsanna
>
> ============================================================
> Letter 93B, "The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett
> Items 6 - 12
>
> (6) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. What emerges at the end of all
> things is not only "pure and impersonal spirit," but the
> collective "personal" remembrances skimmed off every new fifth
> principle in the long series of being. And, if at the end of all
> things say in some million of millions years hence, Spirit will
> have to rest in its pure, impersonal non-existence, as the ONE or
> the Absolute, still there must be "some good" in the cyclic
process,
> since every purified Ego has the chance in the long interims
between
> objective being upon the planets to exist as a Dhyan Chohan from
> the lowest "Devachanee" to the highest Planetary enjoying the
> fruits of its collective lives.
>
> But what is "Spirit" pure and impersonal per se? Is it possible
that
> you should not have realized yet our meaning? why, such a Spirit is
> a nonentity, a pure abstraction, an absolute blank to our senses
> even to the most spiritual. It becomes something only in union with
> matter hence it is always something since matter is infinite and
> indestructible and non-existent without Spirit which, in matter is
> Life. Separated from matter it becomes the absolute negation of
life
> and being, whereas matter is inseparable from it. Ask those who
> offer the objection, whether they know anything of "life"
> and "consciousness" beyond what they now feel on earth. What
> conception can they have unless natural born seers of the state
> and consciousness of one's individuality after it has separated
> itself from gross earthy body? What is the good of the whole
process
> of life on earth you may ask them in your turn if we are as
good
> as "pure" unconscious entities before birth, during sleep, and, at
> the end of our career? Is not death, according to the teachings of
> Science, followed by the same state of unconsciousness as the one
> before birth? Does not life when it quits our body become as
> impersonal as it was before it animated the foetus? Life, after
all,
> the greatest problem within the ken of human conception, is a
> mystery that the greatest of your men of Science will never solve.
> In order to be correctly comprehended, it has to be studied in the
> entire series of its manifestations, otherwise it can never be, not
> only fathomed, but even comprehended in its easiest form life, as
> a state of being on this earth. It can never be grasped so long as
> it is studied separately and apart from universal life. To solve
the
> great problem one has to become an occultist; to analyze and
> experience with it personally in all its phases, as life on earth,
> life beyond the limit of physical death, mineral, vegetable, animal
> and spiritual life; life in conjunction with concrete matter as
well
> as life present in the imponderable atom. Let them try and examine
> or analyze life apart from organism, and what remains of it? Simply
> a mode of motion; which, unless our doctrine of the all-pervading,
> infinite, omnipresent Life is accepted though it be accepted on
no
> better terms than a hypothesis only a little more reasonable than
> their scientific hypotheses which are all absurd has to remain
> unsolved. Will they object? Well, we will answer them by using
their
> own weapons. We will say that it is, and will remain for ever
> demonstrated that since motion is all-pervading and absolute rest
> inconceivable, that under whatever form or mask motion may appear,
> whether as light, heat, magnetism, chemical affinity or
electricity
> all these must be but phases of One and the same universal
> omnipotent Force, a Proteus they bow to as the Great "Unknown" (see
> Herbert Spencer) and we, simply call the "One Life," the "One Law"
> and the "One Element." The greatest, the most scientific minds on
> earth have been keenly pressing forward toward a solution of the
> mystery, leaving no bye-path unexplored, no thread loose or weak in
> this darkest of labyrinths for them, and all had to come to the
same
> conclusion that of the Occultists when given only partially
> namely, that life in its concrete manifestations is the legitimate
> result and consequence of chemical affinity; as to life in its
> abstract sense, life pure and simple well, they know no more of
it
> to-day than they knew in the incipient stage of their Royal
Society.
> They only know that organisms in certain solutions previously free
> from life will spring up spontaneously (Pasteur and his biblical
> piety notwithstanding) owing to certain chemical compositions of
> such substances. If, as I hope, in a few years, I am entirely my
own
> master, I may have the pleasure of demonstrating to you on your own
> writing table that life as life is not only transformable into
other
> aspects or phases of the all-pervading Force, but that it can be
> actually infused into an artificial man. Frankenstein is a myth
only
> so far as he is the hero of a mystic tale; in nature he is a
> possibility; and the physicists and physicians of the last sub-race
> of the sixth Race will inoculate life and revive corpses as they
now
> inoculate small-pox, and often less comely diseases. Spirit, life
> and matter, are not natural principles existing independently of
> each other, but the effects of combinations produced by eternal
> motion in Space; and they better learn it.
>
> (7) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. Most undoubtedly I am so
> permitted. But then comes the most important point; how far
> satisfactory will my answers appear even to you? That not every new
> law brought to light is regarded as adding a link to the chain of
> human knowledge is shown by the ill-grace with which every fact
> unwelcome for some reason to science, is received by its
professors.
> Nevertheless, whenever I can answer you I will try to do so, only
> hoping that you will not send it as a contribution from my pen to
> the Journal of Science.
>
> (8) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. Most assuredly they have. Rain
> can be brought on in a small area of space artificially and
> without any claim to miracle or superhuman powers, though its
secret
> is no property of mine that I should divulge it. I am now trying to
> obtain permission to do so. We know of no phenomenon in nature
> entirely unconnected with either magnetism or electricity since,
> where there are motion, heat, friction, light, there magnetism and
> its alter ego (according to our humble opinion) electricity will
> always appear, as either cause or effect or rather both if we but
> fathom the manifestation to its origin. All the phenomena of earth
> currents, terrestrial magnetism and atmospheric electricity are due
> to the fact that the earth is an electrified conductor, whose
> potential is ever changing owing to its rotation and its annual
> orbital motion, the successive cooling and heating of the air, the
> formation of clouds and rain, storms and winds, etc. This you may
> perhaps, find in some text book. But then Science would be
unwilling
> to admit that all these changes are due to akasic magnetism
> incessantly generating electric currents which tend to restore the
> disturbed equilibrium. By directing the most powerful of electric
> batteries, the human frame electrified by a certain process, you
can
> stop rain on some given point by making "a hole in the rain cloud,"
> as the occultists term it. By using other strongly magnetized
> implements within, so to say, an insulated area, rain can be
> produced artificially. I regret my inability to explain to you the
> process more clearly. You know the effects produced by trees and
> plants on rain clouds; and how their strong magnetic nature
attracts
> and even feeds those clouds over the tops of the trees. Science
> explains it otherwise, maybe. Well, I cannot help it, for such is
> our knowledge and fruits of milleniums of observations and
> experience. Were the present to fall into the hands of Hume, he
> would be sure to remark that I am vindicating the charge publicly
> brought by him against us: "Whenever unable to answer your
arguments
> (?) they (we) calmly reply that their (our) rules do not admit of
> this or that." Charge notwithstanding, I am compelled to answer
that
> since the secret is not mine I cannot make of it a marketable
> commodity. Let some physicists calculate the amount of heat
required
> to vaporize a certain quantity of water. Then let them compute the
> quantity of rain needed to cover an area say, of one square mile
> to a depth of one inch. For this amount of vaporization they will
> require, of course, an amount of heat that would be equal to at
> least five million 4 tons of coal. Now the amount of energy of
which
> this consumption of heat would be the equivalent corresponds (as
any
> mathematician could tell you) to that which would be required to
> raise a weight of upwards of ten million tons, one mile high. How
> can one man generate such amount of heat and energy? Preposterous,
> absurd! we are all lunatics, and you who listen to us will be
> placed in the same category if you ever venture to repeat this
> proposition. Yet I say that one man alone can do it, and very
easily
> if he is but acquainted with a certain "physico-spiritual" lever
in
> himself, far more powerful than that of Archimedes. Even simple
> muscular contraction is always accompanied with electric and
> magnetic phenomena, and there is the strongest connection between
> the magnetism of the earth, the changes of weather and man, who is
> the best barometer living, if he but knew [how] to decipher it
> properly; again, the state of the sky can always be ascertained by
> the variations shown by magnetic instruments. It is now several
> years since I had an opportunity of reading the deductions of
> Science upon this subject; therefore, unless I go to the trouble of
> catching up what I may have remained ignorant of, I do not know the
> latest conclusions of Science. But with us, it is an established
> fact that it is the earth's magnetism that produces wind, storms,
> and rain. What science seems to know of it is but secondary
symptoms
> always induced by that magnetism and she may very soon find out her
> present errors. Earth's magnetic attraction of meteoric dust, and
> the direct influence of the latter upon the sudden changes of
> temperature, especially in the matter of heat and cold, is not a
> settled question to the present day, I believe.5 It was doubted
> whether the fact of our earth passing through a region of space in
> which there are more or less of meteoric masses has any bearing
upon
> the height of our atmosphere being increased or decreased, or even
> upon the state of weather. But we think we could easily prove it;
> and since they accept the fact that the relative distribution and
> proportion of land and water on our globe may be due to the great
> accumulation upon it of meteoric dust, snow especially in our
> northern regions being full of meteoric iron and magnetic
> particles; and deposits of the latter being found even at the
bottom
> of seas and oceans, I wonder how Science has not hitherto
understood
> that every atmospheric change and disturbance was due to the
> combined magnetism of the two great masses between which our
> atmosphere is compressed! I call this meteoric dust a "mass" for it
> is really one. High above our earth's surface the air is
impregnated
> and space filled with magnetic, or meteoric dust, which does not
> even belong to our solar system. Science having luckily discovered
> that, as our earth with all the other planets is carried along
> through space, it receives a greater proportion of that dust matter
> on its northern than on its southern hemisphere, knows that to this
> are due the preponderating number of the continents in the former
> hemisphere, and the greater abundance of snow and moisture.
Millions
> of such meteors and even of the finest particles reach us yearly
and
> daily, and all our temple knives are made of this "heavenly" iron,
> which reaches us without having undergone any change the
magnetism
> of the earth keeping them in cohesion. Gaseous matter is
continually
> added to our atmosphere from the never ceasing fall of meteoric
> strongly magnetic matter, and yet it seems with them still an open
> question whether magnetic conditions have anything to do with the
> precipitation of rain or not! I do not know of any "set of motions
> established by pressures, expansions, etc., due in the first
> instance to solar energy." Science makes too much and too little at
> the same time of "solar energy" and even of the Sun itself; and the
> Sun has nothing to do whatever with rain and very little with heat.
> I was under the impression that science was aware that the glacial
> periods as well as those periods when temperature is "like that of
> the carboniferous age," are due to the decrease and increase or
> rather to the expansion of our atmosphere, which expansion is
itself
> due to the same meteoric presence? At any rate, we all know, that
> the heat that the earth receives by radiation from the sun is at
the
> utmost one third if not less of the amount received by her directly
> from the meteors.
>
> (9) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. Call it a chromosphere or
> atmosphere, it can be called neither; for it is simply the magnetic
> and ever present aura of the sun, seen by astronomers only for a
> brief few moments during the eclipse, and by some of our chelas
> whenever they like of course while in a certain induced state. A
> counterpart of what the astronomers call the red flames in
> the "corona" may be seen in Reichenbach's crystals or in any other
> strongly magnetic body. The head of a man in a strong ecstatic
> condition, when all the electricity of his system is centered
around
> the brain, will represent especially in darkness a perfect
> simile of the Sun during such periods. The first artist who drew
the
> aureoles about the heads of his God and Saints was not inspired,
but
> represented it on the authority of temple pictures and traditions
of
> the sanctuary and the chambers of initiation where such phenomena
> took place. The closer to the head or to the aura-emitting body,
the
> stronger and the more effulgent the emanation (due to hydrogen,
> science tells us, in the case of the flames); hence the irregular
> red flames around the Sun or the "inner corona." The fact that
these
> are not always present in equal quantity shows only the constant
> fluctuation of the magnetic matter and its energy, upon which also
> depend the variety and number of spots. During periods of magnetic
> inertia the spots disappear, or rather remain invisible. The
further
> the emanation shoots out the more it loses in intensity, until
> gradually subsiding it fades out; hence the "outer corona," its
> rayed shape being due entirely to the latter phenomenon whose
> effulgence proceeds from the magnetic nature of the matter and the
> electric energy and not at all from intensely hot particles, as
> asserted by some astronomers. All this is terribly unscientific,
> nevertheless a fact, to which I may add another by reminding you
> that the Sun we see is not at all the central planet of our little
> Universe, but only its veil or its reflection. Science has
> tremendous odds against studying that planet which luckily for us
we
> have not; foremost of all the constant tremors of our atmosphere
> which prevent them from judging correctly the little they do see.
> This impediment was never in the way of the ancient Chaldee and
> Egyptian astronomers; nor is it an obstacle to us, for we have
means
> of arresting, or counteracting such tremors acquainted as we are
> with all the akasic conditions. No more than the rain secret would
> this secret supposing we do divulge it be of any practical use
> to your men of Science unless they become Occultists and sacrifice
> long years to the acquirement of powers. Only fancy a Huxley or a
> Tyndall studying Yog-vidya! Hence the many mistakes into which they
> fall and the conflicting hypotheses of your best authorities. For
> instance; the Sun is full of iron vapours a fact that was
> demonstrated by the spectroscope, showing that the light of the
> corona consisted largely of a line in the green part of the
> spectrum, very nearly coinciding with an iron line. Yet Professors
> Young and Lockyer rejected that, under the witty pretext, if I
> remember, that if the corona were composed of minute particles like
> a dust cloud (and it is this that we call "magnetic matter") these
> particles would (1) fall upon the sun's body, (2) comets were known
> to pass through this vapour without any visible effect on them, (3)
> Professor Young's spectroscope showed that the coronal line was not
> identical with the iron one, etc. Why they should call those
> objections "scientific" is more than we can tell.
>
> (1) The reason why the particles since they call them so do not
> fall upon the sun's body is self-evident. There are forces co-
> existent with gravitation of which they know nothing, besides that
> other fact that there is no gravitation properly speaking, only
> attraction and repulsion. (2) How could comets be affected by the
> said passage since their "passing through" is simply an optical
> illusion; they could not pass within the area of attraction without
> being immediately annihilated by that force of which no vril can
> give an adequate idea, since there can be nothing on earth that
> could be compared with it. Passing as the comets do through
> a "reflection" no wonder that the said vapour has "no visible
effect
> on these light bodies." (3) The coronal line may not seem identical
> through the best "grating spectroscope," nevertheless, the corona
> contains iron as well as other vapours. To tell you of what it does
> consist is idle, since I am unable to translate the words we use
for
> it, and that no such matter exists (not in our planetary system, at
> any rate) but in the sun. The fact is, that what you call the Sun
> is simply the reflection of the huge "storehouse" of our System
> wherein ALL its forces are generated and preserved; the Sun being
> the heart and brain of our pigmy Universe, we might compare its
> faculae those millions of small, intensely brilliant bodies of
> which the Sun's surface away from the spots is made up with the
> blood corpuscles of that luminary, though some of them as correctly
> conjectured by Science are as large as Europe. Those blood
> corpuscles are the electric and magnetic matter in its sixth and
> seventh state. What are those long white filaments twisted like so
> many ropes, of which the penumbra of the Sun is made up? What the
> central part that is seen like a huge flame ending in fiery spires,
> and the transparent clouds, or rather vapours formed of delicate
> threads of silvery light, that hangs over those flames what but
> magneto-electric aura the phlogiston of the Sun? Science may go
on
> speculating for ever, yet so long as she does not renounce two or
> three of her cardinal errors she will find herself groping for ever
> in the dark. Some of her greatest misconceptions are found in her
> limited notions on the law of gravitation; her denial that matter
> may be imponderable; her newly invented term "force" and the absurd
> and tacitly accepted idea that force is capable of existing per se,
> or of acting any more than life, outside, independent of, or in any
> other wise than through matter; in other words that force is
> anything but matter in one of her highest states, the last three on
> the ascending scale being denied because only science knows nothing
> of them; and her utter ignorance of the universal Proteus, its
> functions and importance in the economy of nature magnetism and
> electricity. Tell Science that even in those days of the decline of
> the Roman Empire, when the tattooed Britisher used to offer to the
> Emperor Claudius his nazzur 6 of "electron" in the shape of a
string
> of amber beads that even then there were yet men remaining aloof
> from the immoral masses, who knew more of electricity and magnetism
> than they, the men of science, do now, and science will laugh at
> you as bitterly as she now does over your kind dedication to me.
> Verily, when your astronomers, speaking of sun-matter, term those
> lights and flames "clouds of vapour" and "gases unknown to science"
> (rather!) chased by mighty whirlwinds and cyclones whereas we
know
> it to be simply magnetic matter in its usual state of activity we
> feel inclined to smile at the expressions. Can one imagine
> the "Sun's fires fed with purely mineral matter" with meteorites
> highly charged with hydrogen giving the "Sun a far-reaching
> atmosphere of ignited gas"? We know that the invisible sun is
> composed of that which has neither name, nor can it be compared to
> anything known by your science on earth; and that
its "reflection"
> contains still less of anything like "gases," mineral matter, or
> fire, though even we when treating of it in your civilized tongue
> are compelled to use such expressions as "vapour" and "magnetic
> matter." To close the subject, the coronal changes have no effect
> upon the earth's climate, though spots have and Professor N.
> Lockyer is mostly wrong in his deductions. The Sun is neither a
> solid nor a liquid, nor yet a gaseous globe; but a gigantic ball of
> electromagnetic Forces, the store-house of universal life and
> motion, from which the latter pulsate in all directions, feeding
the
> smallest atom as the greatest genius with the same material unto
the
> end of the Maha Yug.
>
> (10) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. I believe not. The stars are
> distant from us at least 500,000 times as far as the Sun and some
as
> many times more. The strong accumulation of meteoric matter and the
> atmospheric tremors are always in the way. If your astronomers
could
> climb on the height of that meteoric dust, with their telescopes
and
> havanas they might trust more than they can now in their
> photometers. How can they? Neither can the real degree of intensity
> of that light be known on earth hence no trustworthy basis for
> calculating magnitudes and distances can be had nor have they
> hitherto made sure in a single instance (except in the matter of
one
> star in Cassiopeia) which stars shine by reflected and which by
> their own light. The working of the best double star photometers is
> deceptive. Of this I have made sure, so far back as in the spring
of
> 1878 while watching the observations made through a Pickering
> photometer. The discrepancy in the observations upon a star (near
> Gamma Ceti) amounted at times to half a magnitude. No planets but
> one have hitherto been discovered outside of the solar system, with
> all their photometers, while we know with the sole help of our
> spiritual naked eye a number of them; every completely matured Sun-
> star having, like in our own system, several companion planets in
> fact. The famous "polarization of light" test is about as
> trustworthy as all others. Of course, the mere fact of their
> starting from a false premise cannot vitiate either their
> conclusions or astronomical prophecies, since both are
> mathematically correct in their mutual relations, and that it
> answers the given object. [Neither] the Chaldees nor yet our old
> Rishis had either your telescopes or photometers; and yet their
> astronomical predictions were faultless, the mistakes, very slight
> ones in truth fathered upon them by their modern rivals
> proceeding from the mistakes of the latter.
>
> You must not complain of my too long answers to your very short
> questions, since I answer you for your instruction as a student of
> occultism, my "lay" chela, and not at all with a view of answering
> the Journal of Science. I am no man of science with regard to, or
in
> connection with modern learning. My knowledge of your Western
> Sciences is very limited in fact; and you will please bear in mind
> that all my answers are based upon, and derived from, our Eastern
> occult doctrines, regardless of their agreement or disagreement
with
> those of exact science. Hence I say:
>
> "The Sun's surface emits per square mile as much light (in
> proportion) as can be emitted from any body." But what can you mean
> in this case by "light"? The latter is not an independent
principle,
> and I rejoiced at the introduction, with a view to facilitate means
> of observation of the "diffraction spectrum;" since by abolishing
> all these imaginary independent existences, such as heat, actinism,
> light, etc., it rendered to Occult Science the greatest service, by
> vindicating in the eyes of her modern sister our very ancient
theory
> that every phenomenon being but the effect of the diversified
> motions of what we call Akasa (not your ether) there was, in fact,
> but one element, the causative principle of all. But since your
> question is asked with a view to settling a disputed point in
modern
> science I will try to answer it in the clearest way I can. I say
> then, no, and will give you my reasons why. They cannot know it,
for
> the simple reason that heretofore they have in reality found no
sure
> means of measuring the velocity of light. The experiments made by
> Fizeau and Cornu, known as the two best investigators of light in
> the world of science, notwithstanding the general satisfaction at
> the results obtained, are not trustworthy data either in respect to
> the velocity with which sunlight travels or to its quantity. The
> methods adopted by both these Frenchmen are yielding correct
results
> (at any rate approximately correct, since there is a variation of
> 227 miles per second between the result of the observations of both
> experimenters, albeit made with the same apparatus) only as
> regards the velocity of light between our earth and the upper
> regions of its atmosphere. Their toothed wheel, revolving at a
known
> velocity records, of course, the strong ray of light which passes
> through one of the niches of the wheel, and then has its point of
> light obscured whenever a tooth passes accurately enough. The
> instrument is very ingenious and can hardly fail to give splendid
> results on a journey of a few thousand meters there and back; there
> being between the Paris observatory and its fortifications no
> atmosphere, no meteoric masses to impede the ray's progress; and
> that ray finding quite a different quality of a medium to travel
> upon than the ether of Space, the ether between the Sun and the
> meteoric continent above our heads, the velocity of light will of
> course show some 185,000 and odd miles per second, and your
> physicists shout "Eureka"! Nor do any of the other devices
contrived
> by science to measure that velocity since 1878 answer any better.
> All they can say is that their calculations are so far correct.
> Could they measure light above our atmosphere they would soon find
> that they were wrong.
>
> (11) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. It is so far; but is fast
> changing. Your science has a theory, I believe, that if the earth
> were suddenly placed in extremely cold regions for instance where
> it would exchange places with Jupiter all our seas and rivers
> would be suddenly transformed into solid mountains; the air, or
> rather a portion of the aeriform substances which compose it
would
> be metamorphosed from their state of invisible fluid owing to the
> absence of heat into liquids (which now exist on Jupiter, but of
> which men have no idea on earth). Realize, or try to imagine the
> reverse condition, and it will be that of Jupiter at the present
> moment.
>
> The whole of our system is imperceptibly shifting its position in
> space. The relative distance between planets remaining ever the
> same, and being in no wise affected by the displacement of the
whole
> system; and the distance between the latter and the stars and other
> suns being so incommensurable as to produce but little if any
> perceptible change for centuries and milleniums to come, no
> astronomer will perceive it telescopically, until Jupiter and some
> other planets, whose little luminous points hide now from our sight
> millions upon millions of stars (all but some 5000 or 6000) will
> suddenly let us have a peep at a few of the Raja-Suns they are now
> hiding. There is such a king-star right behind Jupiter, that no
> mortal physical eye has ever seen during this, our Round. Could it
> be so perceived it would appear, through the best telescope with a
> power of multiplying its diameter ten thousand times, still a small
> dimensionless point, thrown into the shadow by the brightness of
any
> planet; nevertheless this world is thousands of times larger than
> Jupiter. The violent disturbance of its atmosphere and even its red
> spot that so intrigues science lately, are due (1) to that
> shifting and (2) to the influence of that Raja-Star. In its present
> position in space, imperceptibly small though it be, the metallic
> substances of which it is mainly composed are expanding and
> gradually transforming themselves into aeriform fluids the state
> of our own earth and its six sister globes before the first Round
> and becoming part of its atmosphere. Draw your inferences and
> deductions from this, my dear "lay" chela, but beware lest in doing
> so you sacrifice your humble instructor and the occult doctrine
> itself on the altar of your wrathful Goddess modern science.
>
> (12) [For Question see p. 305. EDS.]. I am afraid not much, since
> our Sun is but a reflection. The only great truth uttered by
Siemens
> is that inter-stellar space is filled with highly attenuated
matter,
> such as may be put in air vacuum tubes, and which stretches from
> planet to planet and from star to star. But this truth has no
> bearing upon his main facts. The sun gives all and takes back
> nothing from its system. The sun gathers nothing "at the poles"
> which are always free even from the famous "red flames" at all
> times, not only during the eclipses. How is it that with their
> powerful telescopes they have failed to perceive any
> such "gathering" since their glasses show them even
> the "superlatively fleecy clouds" on the photosphere? Nothing can
> reach the sun from without the boundaries of its own system in the
> shape of such gross matter as "attenuated gases." Every bit of
> matter in all its seven states is necessary to the vitality of the
> various and numberless systems worlds in formation, suns
awakening
> anew to life, etc., and they have none to spare even for their best
> neighbours and next of kin. They are mothers, not stepmothers, and
> would not take away one crumb from the nutrition of their children.
> The latest theory of radiant energy which shows that there is no
> such thing in nature, properly speaking, as chemical light, or heat
> ray is the only approximately correct one. For indeed, there is but
> one thing radiant energy which is inexhaustible and knows neither
> increase nor decrease and will go on with its self-generating work
> to the end of the Solar manvantara. The absorption of Solar Forces
> by the earth is tremendous; yet it is, or may be demonstrated that
> the latter receives hardly 25 per cent. of the chemical power of
its
> rays, for these are despoiled of 75 per cent. during their vertical
> passage through the atmosphere at the moment they reach the outer
> boundary "of the aerial ocean." And even those rays lose about 20
> per cent. in illuminating and caloric power, we are told. What,
with
> such a waste must then be the recuperative power of our Father-
> Mother Sun? Yes; call it "Radiant Energy" if you will; we call it
> Life all-pervading, omnipresent life, ever at work in its great
> laboratory the SUN.
>
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