Plate 41.--PHOTOSPHERES.
Jehovih said: Let the sign of the corporeal
worlds be as the signs of the etherean worlds;
nevertheless they shall be independent of one
another. Neither shall the travel of corporea
disturb the motions and positions of etherea, but
pass through, as if there were nothing. But the
behavior of the etherean worlds on corporea shall be
to bring them to maturity and old age, and final
dissolution.
And it was so. And there floated in the midst of
etherea certain densities, called a'ji and ji'ay and
nebula, which sometimes augmented the size of the
traveling corporeal worlds, and sometimes illumed
them on the borders of the vortices, and these were
called photospheres, because they were the places of
the generation of light. (See Book of
Cosmogony.)
When Jehovih condensed the earth, and it
became firm and crusted over, there rose up from the
earth heat and moisture, which continue to this day.
But Jehovih limited the ascent of the substances
going upward, and the boundary of the limit of
moisture was as the clouds that float in the air; and
the heat was of like ascent. And whilst the moisture
and heat rise upward, they are met by the etheric
substance of the vortex of the earth, and the
moisture and the gases of the air assume the form of
needles. On the side of the earth facing the sun the
needles are polarized and acting, driving forth; the
which is called light; but on the face of the earth
opposite from the sun the needles are in confusion,
and this is called darkness.
Jehovih said: That man
may comprehend the structure of the belt that holdeth
the earth, I will give him a sign high up in the air.
And Jehovih caused the vapor in the firmament to be
frozen and fall to the earth, white, and it is called
snow. For the snow-drop showeth the matrix in which
it is molded.
Jehovih said: Let this be a sign
also, that even as there riseth up from the earth
heat and moisture, there are representatives of all
things on the earth which have evaporated upward, and
all such things rise up to the level of the density
like unto themselves, every one to its own level, and
they take their places in the strata of the vortex.
These are called plateaux, or spheres, for they
surround the whole earth. Some of them are ten miles
high, some a thousand, some a hundred thousand or
more miles. And all these spheres that rotate and
travel with the earth are called atmospherea, or
lower heavens.
Jehovih said: The corporeal worlds I created
round, with land and water, and I made them
impenetrable, for I bring forth the living on the
surface of them. Let not man imagine that My
etherean worlds are also round and impenetrable; for,
of all I have created, no two alike created I
them.
Now, it came to pass in the lapse of time,
that the atmosphereans so loved the lower heavens,
that they strove not to ascend to the emancipated
heavens of Nirvana, never having reached the bridge
of Chinvat. But they oft returned to the earth and
held converse with corporeans, and they lauded the
glories of even the lower heavens, so that man looked
up in wonder because of the magnificence of the works
of the Father. Yet these were bounden spirits.
Then
Jehovih made the snow-flake and caused it to fall,
that man might behold the beauty and glory of its
formation. And he sent ethereans down from the
emancipated heavens, and these taught man that
whatever glory he had yet heard of, was as darkness
is to light, compared to the beauty and majesty of
the etherean worlds.
And the ethereans held up
snow-flakes, saying: In the name of Jehovih we
declare unto you, that the etherean worlds are larger
than the earth, and penetrable, and full of roadways
of crystals, and arches, and curves, and angles, so
that were man to travel a million of years on one
alone, he could not see half its beauty and glory.
And the firmament of heaven hath tens of thousands of
millions of etherean worlds. Let the snow-flakes be
before your eyes as microscopic patterns of the
worlds in high heaven; and ye shall tint them as a
rainbow, and people them with countless millions of
angels, spotless, pure, holy, and rich in the
knowledge of Jehovih and His works, and full of the
majesty of His love.
Jehovih said: In times past, man beheld the
sun, saying: The sun is the Creator of all the
living; light and heat come from the sun.
Then
Jehovih said: I will put a sign in the firmament,
and no man shall gainsay the work of My hand.
And above the earth, to the north and south, He
placed polar lights, that man might bear witness that
light depended not on corporea, and had no part
therewith. But the sun He placed in the midst of the
great vortex, so that every side was as a pole to the
corporeal worlds around it. And Jehovih made etherea
as a condensing lens, so that the rotation of each
and every corporeal world should manufacture its own
light, on the side poling to the sun, by the rotation
of its wark and vortex. And man saw that atmospherea
turned the earth, and that the earth turned not
atmospherea.