BOOK OF COSMOGONY AND PROPHECY.
Plate 49. Cevorkum, Roadway of Solar Phalanx.
a, a, a, lines of different currents; b, b, b, transverse currents. The crossing denotethe localities of the highest etherean light. The numbers with their signatures,show the densities through which the great serpent passes each cycle. Thelines across the cevorkum denote a cycle of three thousand years, but overdrawnone thousand times in order to be apparent to the eye, i.e., one to 4,700,000.
Plate 50. PLANETS.
B, B, B, B, B, planets. Fig. 1, photosphere, or light on every side; Fig. 2, negative currents; Fig. 3, relative enlargement of a planet on the illuminate side; Fig. 4, enlargement illustrative of age of planet; Figs. 5 and 8, variation in vortex, called variation of needles; 1, 1, etherea, or inactive space; 2, 2, 2, 2, place of actinic force. The Panic signs denote the expression in numbers.
Plate 51. FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD RESURRECTIONS.
Atmospherea corresponds to the place of actinic force in preceding plate; etherea, tonon-action. Figs.1, 2, 3, enlarged illustrations of the course and form of vortexian currents.
Plate 52. MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS.
Zero (line of velocity), with the two arrows, and the parallel lines crossing, arethe signs of the boundary to a vortex. The oscillations of a planet are shownin the curves. In order to reduce the Panic signs to English, see B
OOK OF SAPHAH.Plate 53. TRAVELS OF SOLAR PHALANX.
3,000 years.
6,000 years.
9,000 years.
Travel of the great serpent during the first 27 thousand years, nine thousand years eachsegment, after man's creation. Showing also the Orian fields in etherea, with theircomparative densities and symbols.
Plate 54.
12,000 years.
15,000 years.
18,000 years.
Travel of the great serpent during the second nine thousand years after man's creation. Showing also the Orian fields in etherea, with their comparative densities and symbols.
Plate 55.
21,000 years.
24,000 years.
27,000 years.
Travel of the great serpent during the third nine thousand years after the creation of man. Showing also the Orian fields in etherea, with their comparative densities and symbols.
Plate 56. ILLUSTRATIONS OF LIGHT.
Plate 57. DIFFERENT LENS ILLUSTRATED.
Plate 58. ILLUSTRATIONS OF CORPOREAL WORLDS.
CHAPTER I.
1. The same principles apply to all the stars, suns, planets and moons, differing inmanifestation on account of size, motion, density and relative place.
2. The earth floateth in the midst of a vortex,1 the outer extremity of which is somewhat beyond the moon. The vortex is globular, corresponding to the form of the earth, with slight differences, which will be pointed out hereafter. Vortices are not all closed at the ends; some are open at both ends.
3. The vortex turneth the earth on its axis, with its own axial motion. Consequently theouter part of the vortex hath greater velocity than near the earth's surface, which hath anaxial motion of one thousand miles an hour.
4. The moon hath a vortex surrounding it also, which hath a rotation axially once amonth, but being an open vortex turneth not the moon. All vortices do not lay in contactwith the planet, in which case it is called a dead planet. The moon's vortex is ten times themoon's diameter, and the earth's vortex thirty times the earth's diameter, with variationswhich will be explained hereafter.
5. The outer rim, forty-two thousand miles broad, of the earth's vortex, hath a revolutionaxially with the earth once a month. The swiftest part of the earth's vortex is thereforeabout fifteen thousand miles this side of the orbit of the moon.
6. From the swiftest part of the earth's vortex, its force is toward the earth's center. And ifthere were no earth here at present, the vortex would make one presently.
7. Things fall not to the earth because of the magnetism therein, save as hereinaftermentioned, but they are driven toward the center of the vortex, by the power of thevortex.
8. The greater diameter of the vortex is east and west; the lesser diameter north and south,with an inclination and oscillation relatively like the earth.
9. The name of the force of the vortex is called vortexya, that is, positive force, because itis arbitrary and exerteth east and west. As in the case of a wheel turning on its axis, itsforce will be at right angles with its axis, the extreme center of which will be no force.
10. For which reason the north and south line of the earth's vortex is calledthe m'vortexya, or negative force, for it is the subject of the other. As a whirlwindgathereth up straw and dust, which travel toward the center of the whirlwind,and to the poles thereof, even so do corporeal substances incline to approach thepoles of the earth's vortex. Which may be proved by poising a magnetized needle.
11. In the early times, the earth was longer north and south than east and west. But them'vortexya, being less than the vortexya, the earth assumed the globular form, which wasafterward attenuated east and west, then it again turned, to adapt itself to the polaritynorth and south.
12. In these various turnings of the earth, the same force of the vortex exerted over to theeast and west. By which behavior every portion of the earth hath been to the east, to thewest, to the north and to the south. Which is proven in the rocks, and boulders, andmountains of the earth.
13. Wherefore it is shown there is no north and south polar power in the earth as such.Furthermore the iron mountains show they attract east and west and north and south,without any regard to a central polar force in the earth.
14. Wherein mortals have been taught erroneously in regard to two powers which do notexist, as they have been heretofore set forth: These are the attraction of gravitation in theearth, and a north pole magnetism in the earth.
15. The positive force of the vortex is, therefore, from the external toward the internal;and the negative force of the vortex is toward the poles, and in the ascendant toward thepole external from the sun center.
16. Whereof it may be said the force of the vortex is toward its own center, but turneth atthe center and escapeth outward at the north pole. As one may draw a line from the east tothe center of the earth, thence in a right angle due north, which would be the current ofthe vortex until the center were filled with a corporeal body. After which the same powerapplieth, and is all one power, although for convenience called positive and negative.
17. Vortexya can be concentrated in iron and steel, and in iron ore, in which conditionthey are called magnetic. And these substances, if poised as needles, will assume the lineof polarity of the vortex or its poles.
18. Vortexya in the atmosphere will combine oxygen and hydrogen, and an explosionensueth, which is called thunder. But if an iron wire be raised up in the air (a lightningrod), it formeth a negative center, to which the vortexya flieth quickly, following it downinto the moisture of the earth, where it is dissolved.
19. If an iron wire extend from city to city, and vortexya be charged at one end, it willmanifest at the other pole, and at times even escape in a flame of fire (electric flash).
20. In like manner the vortex of the earth constantly chargeth the earth with its vortexyain the east and west, and it manifesteth in the northern pole of the vortex in flames of fire,which are called Borealis. But it sometimes happeneth, over high iron mountains, that thelight is manifested in other directions. A su'is can see vortexya, as is proven by placing ahorseshoe magnet before him in the dark, and he will describe the polar light escaping,even though he hath not been previously informed.
21. When vortexya is manifested in flames of fire it is called electricity. But when it liethdormant, as in iron, it is called magnetism.
22. Where two corporeal substances are rubbed quickly together, friction and heat result;this is a manifestation of vortexya.
23. In the beginning of the earth's vortex, the current concentrated certain substances(which will be described hereafter) in the center thereof, where, by friction, the vortexyamanifested in heat, so that when the congregation of materials of the earth's substancewere together, they were as a molten mass of fire.
24. And for a long period of time after the fire disappeared, two great lights manifested,one at the north and one at the south.
25. Were the earth a central planet, like the sun, the light would have been all around, inwhich case it would have been called a photosphere.
26. By vortexya was the earth first formed as a ball of fire. By the same power is thewarmth of the surface of the earth manufactured to this day. Think not that heat comethfrom the sun to the earth; heat cometh not from the sun to the earth. Of which mattermortals in part still dwell in the superstitions of the ancients, who believed all thingscame from the sun. For is it not said this day: Heat and light come from the sun? Nay,without examination, they also talk about the attraction of gravitation of the sunextending to other planets!
27. Corpor, as such, hath no power in any direction whatever: Neither attraction ofcohesion, nor attraction of gravitation; nor hath it propulsion. But it is of itself inert in allparticulars. As two ships sailing near each other will collide, or as two balls suspended bylong cords will approach each other somewhat, the cause lieth not in the ships or theballs, but in what is external to them.
28. Cast water on a dusty floor and the drops of water will assume globular forms, beingcoated with dust. For convenience sake it is said that the globular form is natural to aliquid, and it is called the globular power. But it is nevertheless caused by a powerexternal to itself. Approach one of the drops of water, which lieth coated with dust, with apiece of cloth, and instantly the globe of water breaketh and climbeth up into the cloth. This is erroneously called capillary attraction. But in fact the water had no attraction forthe cloth, nor the cloth for the water. The power which accomplished this was external toboth, and was the same in kind as the vortexya that brought the earth to its center andmaintained it therein.
29. Withdraw the vortexian power, and the earth would instantly go into dissolution. When the cloth approacheth the drop of water, it breaketh the vortex thereof,and the water goeth into divisible parts into the cloth, in search of negative polarity.
30. What is called corporeal substance, which has length, breadth and thickness,remaineth so by no power of its own, but by vortexya external thereto. Exchangethe vortexya, and the corpor goeth into dissolution. This power was, by theancients, called Uz, or the fourth dimension of corpor. (See Uz, BOOK OF SAPHAH.)
31. Wherefore it is said, the tendency of corpor is to uncorpor itself (dissolve orevaporate). From the surface of the ocean, and from the earth also, moisture risethupward. Turn a wheel slowly, with water on its periphery, and the water flieth not off; letthe wheel stand idle, and the water runneth off; or turn the wheel very swiftly, and thewater flieth off. The same results would follow, as regardeth water, if the wheel stood stillwith a current of air whirling around the wheel. If the air passed slowly, the water wouldfall; if at a certain speed, the water would be retained on the periphery; but if at a higherspeed, the water would be carried off.
32. When the earth's axial motion and the vortexian power are equivalent, there is noevaporation of moisture outward; when the vortexya exceedeth, there is greatevaporation; but when the vortexya is less, there is rain. According to the vortexiancurrents, so are the winds (save as hereinafter mentioned), and when these are discordant,small vortices ensue in the cloud regions, and each of these small vortices formeth a dropof rain, which is an infinitesimal planet. Nevertheless, all of them are under the propellinginfluence of the earth's vortex, and are thus precipitated to the earth. But neitherthe earth attracted the rain drops, nor do the rain drops attract themselves to the earth.
33. The earth's vortex is a sub-vortex, existing within the sun's vortex: Mercury, Venus,Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and so on, are corporeal worlds, and each and all of them withinsub-vortices, and the combination of all these vortices within the sun's vortex are knownby the names great serpent, or solar phalanx. For which reason the sun's vortex was calledthe MASTER VORTEX, or TOW-SANG, by the ancient prophets. (See plate 36, GOD�SBOOK OFBEN)
34. Were the sun planet extinct, the master vortex would instantly make another sun. As the lines of vortexya are in currents from the outer toward the interior, so dothe solutions of corpor take the shape of needles, in the master, pointing towardthe center, which condition of things is called LIGHT;and when these needlesapproach the center, or even the photosphere, the actinic force thereof is called HEAT.
35. Neither light, nor heat, nor attraction of gravitation cometh from the sun to the earth. Heat decreaseth in force in proportion to the square of the distance from the place ofgeneration; nevertheless, an allowance of decrease must be added thereunto of one to thehundred. Light decreaseth in proportion to the divisibility of rays, as will be mentionedhereafter. Though a man see the light of the sun, as he seeth a horse in a field, yet there isno such thing as travel of light in fact; nor is there any substance of light. But that whichis called light is polarity of corporeal needles in solution, caused by the lines of vortexya. In experiments on earth, the flash requireth a certain time to polarize these infinitesimalneedles, and for convenience sake such lapse of time is called the travel of light. Whenthe flash continueth, as in the case of the sun center, the master's infinitesimal needlesremain poised from the sun center outward, even to the earth, and may be compared totelegraph wires, with a battery at each end. But there is no travel in any sense whatever. Daylight is not, therefore, made by the sun, nor by the photosphere of the sun. Daylight isthe condition of things polarized within the master vortex. Night is manufactured by theearth coming betwixt the master's focus and the outer extreme. So that both night and daycontinue all the time; and we realize them both alternately in consequence of the axialmotion of the earth. As in the case of night, or of any darkness, when the needles ofatmospherean substance are disturbed in polarity, or when the lines of needles are cut,as in eclipse, there is no direct manifestation of the earth's vortexian currents, and suchis the cause of darkness. For which reason nitrogenous plants grow rapidly at night,whilst the ripening of certain fruits and grains require the light of day. For by thisvortexya are seeds and grains and fruits charged with it. Whereof when man eateth, or, asin breathing air, these things go into dissolution, as hereinafter mentioned, the heat iseliminated, and lodgeth itself in man. Or if certain herbs be piled together, and theycommence dissolution, their heat is evolved, and is called spontaneous combustion.
36. Nevertheless, the herbs as such, have no power to produce heat; by their rapiddissolution, the vortexya in them endeavoreth to escape to some pole. The heat in herbs,and seeds, and plants, and other growing things, is because they are the objective pointsof the actinic force of vortexya. And this heat in herbs is equivalent to the same thing iniron, which is called magnetism. And its liberation or polar manifestation is, after all, oneand the same thing as that which is discharged in a magnetic flame called electricity.
37. So that the cause of all these things springeth from the vortex, the power and force ofwhich is vortexya. By a sudden dissolution of vegetable substance, as wood or straw, wehave what is called fire, or burning. There is no substance of heat, nor of fire; adissolution occurreth in which the vortexya is liberated. Corporeal substances all containheat (vortexya proper); even snow and ice have it in infinitesimal quantities; and oils, andherbs of all kinds; but the diamond containeth the highest percentage of charge.
38. Wherein they have taught erroneously that heat cometh from the sun. As may beproved in all the earth that heat (so-called) is evolved at the expense of destroyingsomething, which is, in general, called combustion. And there is not in all the universeanything that can give off forever without receiving a supply forever. Heat had to bestored up in the first place in anything in heaven or earth before it could be liberated.
39. Though a man burn a stick of wood, he can produce no more heat therefrom thanwhat was stored therein.
40. Allowing the sun to be four and a half millions of miles in diameter, and to be of thebest quality of a diamond. Give it even fifty percent of the burning capacity, and it wouldbe entirely consumed in eighty thousand years! And yet the sun is not of any such qualityas a diamond. Even not more so in quality than is the earth. But suppose it were even as adiamond, or as the highest conceived-of center of heat; then that heat had to be previouslygiven to it. Whence came it? To suppose that heat existeth of itself is folly; to supposethat heat can be produced forever without supply is not supported by any fact in heaven orearth.
41. Friction produceth heat; but it is because the abrasion liberateth stored-up vortexya. Or as in the case of glass on leather, vortexya is manufactured. In the case of the sun nosuch manufactory, nor one approximating it, existeth.
42. Wherein they have observed sun-spots, and said that during their presence, thetemperature of the earth decreaseth, thereby reasoning that sun-spots prevented the heat ofthe sun falling to the earth, they have erred in two particulars: First, in defectiveobservations and guessing at a conclusion; and second, in not having first determined therelative heat evolved from the earth at different periods in its course of travel. (Of whichmatter further remarks will be made hereinafter.)
43. The same errors, in regard to the light of the moon, were made in the conclusions of Kepler and Humboldt,2 in attributing the eclipse thereof to be governed by the sun's raysbeing inflected by their passage through the atmosphere and thrown into the shadow cone.
44. The superstitions of the ancients still cling to philosophers; they seek, first, to find thecause of things in the sun; or if failing therein, turn to the moon, or if failing here, theyturn to the stars.
45. Finding a coincidence in the tides with certain phases of the moon, they haveerroneously attributed the cause of tides to the power of attraction in the moonmanifesting on the ocean, which is taught to this day as sound philosophy! Attraction, aspreviously stated, existeth not in any corporeal substance as a separate thing. There is nosubstance of attraction. Nor is there any substance of gravitation. These powers are themanifestation of vortexya. If vortexya be charged into a piece of iron or steel, it is called amagnet, because itAPPARENTLY draweth its own kind to itself. When two pieces of steel,alike in quality, are charged with vortexya to their utmost, their power will be inproportion to their dimensions. If one be twice the size of the other, its magnetic force(so-called) will be in the main two times more powerful.
46. The form of a true magnet of steel, to manifest the greatest positive, and greatestnegative force, should be nearly a right-angle triangle, after the manner of a line ofvortexya from the equatorial surface of the earth to its center, and thence toward the northpole. By having two such magnets, and bringing their poles together, a square isproduced, which now balanceth its recipiency and its emission of vortexya. (See cut C,Figs. 2 and 3.)
47. As in the case of an iron mountain, it is forever receiving (feebly) equatorially; andforever emitting (feebly) polarly the vortexian current; though, for practical observations,the force may be said to be in a dormant state. And in this sense should the earth andother planets be considered. They are not in the shape of triangles or horseshoes, but asglobes. Hence their positive and negative vortexian power (magnetism, erroneouslycalled) is less than the horseshoe form.
48. The power of a magnet decreaseth in proportion to the square of the distance from it. Under certain conditions one leg of the magnet repelleth things from it. As previouslystated, this is nevertheless one current; which vortexya floweth through the magnet, evenas water floweth through a tube. This propelling power of the magnet also decreaseth inproportion to the square of the distance from it. If the poles of a single magnet beexposed, it will in time decrease from its maximum power until it ultimately becometh ofthe same capacity (as to external things) even as if the poles were closed by juxtapositionwith another magnet.
49. Wherein it will be observed that were the sun or moon or earth the most powerfulsteel magnet, it would not take a long time (as to the time of worlds) when its magneticattraction would not exceed native iron ore. Wherein it will also be observed that were themoon a globe of magnetic iron ore, it can be shown approximately how far would extendits power of magnetic attraction external to itself.
50. Nevertheless, its magnetic attraction in that extreme case would not be on water orclay, but on iron and its kindred ores. So that if the moon exerted a magnetic force on theearth it would manifest more on the magnetic needle, or other iron substance, than on thewater of the ocean.
51. By suspending a ball of magnetic iron along side a suspended cup of water, it will bediscovered there is no magnetic attraction between them, more than between two cups ofwater, or between two vessels of clay.
52. The highest magnetic power that can be imparted to steel in the form of a ball, to itsequatorial dimension, to manifest in moving an equivalent fellow, is seven of itsdiameters! But in the case of iron ore (normal magnet) it is very considerably less thanthis. By this it is shown that were the moon a steel magnet it would not exert perceptiblepower more than nine thousand miles. Her shortest distance from the earth is two hundredand twenty thousand miles.
53. Wherein it is shown that under the most extravagant supposition of power, hermagnetic attraction is more than two hundred thousand miles short of reaching to theearth.
54. Were there such a thing as magnetic attraction between the iron and water, or betweenwater and water, a still further discrepancy would result. Admitting the general parts ofthe moon, as to iron and stone and clay and water, to be alike and like unto the corporealearth, the power of the magnetic attraction of the earth, as against the moon's, to hold thetides from rising, would be in the ratio of different sizes of the two bodies, and theirrespective distances from the water contended for. In which case there would be morethan four thousand million times advantage of power in the earth! For if we give the samemagnetic equivalent to each, we must give to each a decrease in proportion to the squareof the distance of their centers from the point in contention, the ocean's tides!
55. The same philosophy holdeth in regard to the sun, and to Jupiter and Saturn and Mars,and all other planets, making allowance for their different densities and velocities.
56. As to the attraction (so-called) between two earth substances, as granite, or sandstone,or lead, or gold, or clay, or water, it is far less than between two steel magnets. Wherein itwill be observed, that it is utterly impossible for any attractive force to exert from oneplanet to another; or even from a planet to its own satellite.
57. And though the most extravagant supposition, based on measurement, be given to thesun's supposed attractive force, it doeth not extend to the earth by more than seventymillion miles! Wherein they have taught error in place of truth!
1 See illustrations of vortices, Book of Ben.
2 See Humboldt's Cosmos, vol. iv., pp. 483 and 484, Bohn's edition.CHAPTER II.
1. There are two known things in the universe: ethe and corpor. The former is the solventof the latter.
2. For comparison, take a lump of table-salt, which, though white, is impervious to thesight of man. Cast it into water, and it is lost to sight; though it still existeth, the sight ofman can see through it.
3. Earth substance, as such, is equally soluble in ethe. And the great etherean firmament isthus constituted; being a dense solution of corpor. In the main, etherea is transparent; butin some places translucent, and in others, opaque.
4. Here are iron, and copper, and granite, and water, and lead, and clay, and nitrogen, andoxygen, and hydrogen, and various other kinds of corporeal substances, as known on theearth, and besides these, millions of things not known on the earth. And ethe holdeththem in solution; even after the manner that the air holdeth the substance of clouds, whichis water in solution. And as some clouds are so rarified as to be imperceptible, whilstothers are opaque, and even black, so are the comparative conditions of etherea; of whichmatters more will be said further on.
5. In the case of a vortex in etherea (that is after the manner of a whirlwind on the earth),the corporeal solutions are propelled toward the center thereof in greater density.
6. When it is sufficiently dense to manifest light, and shadow, it is called a comet, ornebula; when still more dense it is a planet.
7. When as a comet (or nebula) the m'vortex hath not attained to an orbit of its own, it iscarried in the currents of the master vortex, which currents are elliptic, parabolic andhyperbolic. Hence the so-called eccentric travel of comets.3
8. At this age of the comet, it showeth nearly the configuration of its own vortex; its tailbeing the m'vortexya. If it appear to the east of the sun its tail turneth eastward; if west ofthe sun, it turneth westward.
9. Two directions of power are thus manifested; and also two powers: First, that thevortex of the sun hath power from the east to west, and from the west to east, to which thecomet is subjected: Second, that the comet hath a vortex of its own, which is sufficientunder the circumstances to maintain the general form of the comet. The ordinary comethath its tail away from the sun, but some comets have two tails, one toward the sun andone away. In the case of Biela's comet in the year 4 B.K. (1846 A.D.), which was brokenwhilst the observer was looking on, is sufficient evidence of the sub-power of the cometvortex.
10. Interior nebula is generally described as comets; whilst exterior nebula is usuallycalled nebula. Nevertheless, all such solutions of corpor are of like nature, being as thebeginning or as the incomplete condensation of a planet.
11. They do not all, nor half of them, ripen into planets. But their vortices are oftenbroken and they return again into sublimated solutions, and are lost to mortal sight.
12. But nowhere in etherea is there a solution of corpor sufficient to put itself in motion;nor sufficient to condense itself; nor to provide the road of its travel. But its road of travelshoweth the direction of the lines of the sun's vortex. Save and except in such case whena comet's vortex cometh within the vortex of another planet's vortex of greater power thanits own.
13. As a cyclone, or whirlwind, on the earth, traveleth with the general current of thewind, so travel the sub-vortices in etherea within the axial lines of vortices in chief.
14. Whether within the sun's vortex, or external thereto, the rules apply, so far as nebulaor comets are concerned, and the vortices that carry them.
15. Axial velocity belongeth to all of them; and the tendency of all of them is to orbits;the which they attain to or not, according to their strength compared to the master.
16. When a nebulous planet is sufficiently dense to have its corpor polarized, but so thatits polarity correspondeth to the polarity of the master, it is transparent, and possesseth noeclipse power.
17. But when nebula is polarized transversely, it is as a cloud in etherea, with power toeclipse stars; and even to eclipse the sun itself, provided it be within the solar vortex.
18. Of external nebulae, of sufficient size to be self-sustaining, and to ultimately becomeplanets, there are at present visible from the earth more than eight thousand. These are inprocess of globe-making, even as the earth was made. Of nebulae within the sun's vortex,where they are usually called comets, there are upward of eight or ten new ones everyyear. Some of them survive but a few months, some a few years; some a hundred years;and some even a thousand or more years. But in all cases when the vortex of one of thembursteth, the corpor of the comet flieth instantly into dissolution more sublimated, and islost to mortal sight.
19. Where nebula is transparent and lieth between the earth and master center it is notdiscernible, either with the naked eye or with a telescope. Amongst the most sublimatedforms of corpor in solution are nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen. When a sub-vortex, oreven a stratum of ten or twenty million miles, of this solution lieth between the earth andsun center, and an observation of the sun be taken, the observer is apt to erroneouslysuppose he hath discovered nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen in the sun atmosphere orphotosphere. And if the solution contain iron and gold and platinum, and other metals, theobserver is apt to erroneously suppose he hath discovered these things within thephotosphere or atmosphere of the sun.
20. Wherefore all observations made to determine such matters require that the observershall first understand what lieth between the earth and the sun at the time of observation.
21. But some of these sub-vortices in etherea, require forty years' time in which to dragtheir whole length away from the line of observation. So that in no case is the observationof any value, even though it be taken the breadth of the earth, unless it covereth a periodgreater than forty years. But it also so happeneth that, perhaps, when such an immensevortex is about passing away from the line, that another one, equally large, and perhaps ofdifferent density of solution, cometh within the line. And it may thus occur that hundredsof years will elapse before a good view of the sun can be obtained. Some of thesetraveling plateaux are opaque (dark), so that the sun is kept in a dim eclipse for a year ortwo, and sometimes for hundreds of years.4
22. Wherefore philosophers have erroneously attributed their observations as havingproved certain gases and certain metals within the sun's atmosphere.
23. The same remarks apply to observations made of the stars; and even of the moon.
24. In the case of light being manifested in a complete steel magnet, the major retention isat the angle of the two legs, and the minor light at the terminus of the north leg (negativepole). But in an eccentric magnet (horseshoe) the two lights are manifest at the terminusof the two legs.
25. A complete planetary vortex is a globe, or nearly so, and its manifested light like acomplete magnet. But an immature vortex, as in the case of a comet or other small vortex,will manifest light at both poles, and sometimes in the middle, if it hath attained to powerto manufacture light of its own. In some cases the comet or the nebula is not sufficientlycondensed to produce light of it own, but containeth corpor in a gaseous state which ofitself may have infinitesimal polarities refracting the normal light of the master vortex.
26. By observing the new moon, it will be seen that the light portion thereof describeth alarger circle than the dark portion. The bulge of the light side of the moon always pointethtoward the sun. It is an error to say that light cometh from the sun and striketh on themoon, and is then reflected on the earth. As previously shown, there is no such thing orsubstance as light; but that which is called light is a manifestation of vortexian power;also that the c'vortex5 is comparatively all one light, with a central focus. The reason oneside of the moon is dark and one light, is because it hath a positive and negativemanifestation of the c'vortexya; for the moon also manufactureth its own light.
27. As the moon advanceth to the next quarter, the same discrepancy in the twoapparent sizes is manifest; and this continueth until it is full moon. It is an error to saythat dark bodies appear smaller, and light bodies larger, because of absorption,or refraction. The cause is not absorption, or refraction, or reflection, but of manufacture.
28. Light bodies (so-called) manufacture light of their own, ever so infinitesimal,which is as an envelope external to themselves. The eye of the observer seeth thisas well as the corporeal body, and consequently it appeareth larger than it really is.
29. The same rule applieth in regard to the sun and his photosphere, and to comets, and toall bodies that manifest light. Suitable deduction must be made, in endeavoring todetermine the size of a planet.
30. Shadow is usually divided into two expressions,UMBRA, as the shadow of aman standing in sunlight; and DARKNESS, as the shadow of the earth in a cloudynight. Nevertheless, they are but one and the same thing, but in different degrees,both of which are here included in the word shadow. In a clear night, when thefull moon shineth, two conditions are manifest on the earth: first, that a shadow isvertical to the moon, and the light side is not as light as when the sun shineth at noon.
31. The density of shadow from sunlight and the density of shadow from moonlightcorrespond exactly to the comparative difference between sunlight and moonlight.
32. When it is full moon at midday, the light of the sun (so-called) is no greater becauseof the moon's presence. Observe the difference, however, on a given object if the ray froma mirror facing the sun be added to the ordinary sunlight. Hence it is an error to attributethe moon's rays as being reflected from the sun to the earth. If it be premised that thelight face of the moon is not a mirror, but is opaque, observe the following result fromthe moon when it is half full: The half of the moon is equivalent to half a globe; if thelight of the sun fell on the bulge, the rays thus landed on the moon would cause that partof the moon to be a trifle more than four times lighter (or brighter) than on the slopes.
33. In an observation of this kind, and if the light were borrowed from the sun, two kindsof rays would result; the bulge of the moon would afford a center for rays to emanate invery direction; and the slope rays would refract at the same angle as received from thesun.
34. The fact is, however, there is no intense center light manifested on the moon's surface,in the place where it directly faceth the sun. Hence there is no possibility of the light ofthe moon being produced by light from the sun, or from the sun's center. The light of themoon faceth the sun center, but the latter is not the cause thereof, the cause is in theemissions of positive and negative currents from the moon's vortex, and they manifest inthe m'vortexya of the master.
35. The same rules apply to all planets whose vortices are negative.
3 See Humboldt's Cosmos, vol. iv., p. 545.
4 See remarks and extracts from Humboldt, latter part Book of Ben.
5 The term "c'," as applied to words, is equivalent to the word major. The term "m'," as applied to words, is equivalent to minor.CHAPTER III.
1. Here followeth the method of manufacturing light and heat as they are on the earth andmoon and sun, and all other planets:
2. The half of the earth's vortex (for example) which faceth toward the sun is a concavelens to the earth. A similar lens, but far larger, is at the sun-center: The convex faces ofthe two lenses are toward each other forever. They are ethereally connected by solutionsof corpor needles linear in position.
3. The vortex is larger than the earth, so that polar lights are possible on the shadow side. And the brilliancy of the polar lights are proportionately less than daylight at noon in thetropics, exactly in correspondence to the concentration of the rays by a lens of themagnitude referred to.
4. The vortexya rising up out of the earth at night is negative, or less than the vortexyadescending in daylight, and their conjunctive line is near the earth's surface. Hence, fiveor six miles' altitude is intense cold; whilst five or six hundred is so cold that mortalscould not possibly measure it.
5. In the early days of the earth, when there was more heat emitted from the earth than atpresent, it also rose to a greater altitude; but it was nevertheless thrown back, to a greatextent, every day, even after the same manner it is to-day, by the vortexian lens referredto. And as of the heat, so also of the light.
6. In the sum of all the universe there was, and is now, and ever shall be, the same latentamount of heat and light. The vortex in formation driveth them to the centre for a periodof time; nevertheless a time cometh when the heat and light escape outward. And thoughthe vortexian lens recast them back in a measure, thus producing day and warmth on theface of the earth, yet there is ever a trifling loss toward perpetual coldness and darkness.
7. This great hemispherical lens, atmospherea, not only thus manufactureth light andheat, but it also affordeth man the means of seeing the sun and moon and stars. It haththe power also of magnifying millions of comparatively dense etherean worlds, sothat man can see through them. The student should consider this from the standpointof a magnifying lens in a microscope, which hath power to distend many things soone can see through their fibres, which to the naked eye seem dense. For etherea isnot nearly so rarified as mortals suppose. Without the sun's atmospherean lens, mancould not even see the moon, nor stars; and the sun itself would seem as a pale red star.
8. As the vortex of the earth is thus a lens to the earth, so is the moon's vortex to themoon, and so also of the sun and all other stars and planets, where light and heat aremanifested.
9. When the moon is half full, a dim outline of the shadow side of the moon is to be seenwith the naked eye. This, by philosophers hath been erroneously called the earth's shine. For they ignorantly believed the light of the earth was reflected on the moon. The realcause of this sub-light on the moon is in consequence of the action of a sub-lens on themoon, facing the earth's vortex, which operateth after the same manner as the other.
10. When the moon produceth a full eclipse of the sun (by which philosophersignorantly believed the light and heat of the sun were cut off from the earth), itcauseth darkness on the earth by breaking the linear connection betwixt the earth'svortex and the sun-center, so that the positive current in the earth's vortex is cut off,and that part that would otherwise be a lens becometh negative in its action, in thelinear space. But when the eclipse falleth far in the north or south part of the earth only,then the action of the moon's shadow will fall in the direction of the earth's lens, so thata sub-lens is impossible. Whereas, were there such a thing as earth's shine, in time oftotal eclipse of the sun, the equatorial light would make the moon shine at that time also.
11. As light, and heat, and magnetism, and electricity, are all one and the same thing,which are the manifestation of vortexian currents under different conditions, the studentmust not lose sight of the fact that none of these so-called things are things in fact, that is,entities of themselves, separately or combined.
12. Vortexya can be charged, as before mentioned, into iron and other substances. Whenit is charged in iron it is called magnetism; when charged in phosphorus it is called light(inactive); when charged in nitrate of silver it is called darkness. If its application becontinued on phosphorus, the latter will combine with common air and ignite. Withphosphorus and without it, it will, as before stated, combine oxygen and hydrogen, and itwill also separate them. And yet vortexya, in fact, is no substance or thing as such; but isthe vortex in axial and orbitic motion, or, in other words, corpor in an etheic solution.
13. As previously stated, ethe holdeth corpor in solution, which is the condition ofatmospherea and of the etherean regions beyond. When a portion of this solution is givena rotary motion it is called a vortex. Nor is a vortex a substance or thing of itself, morethan is a whirlwind, or as a whirlpool in the water. As a whirlpool can not exist withoutwater, or a whirlwind exist without air, so can not a vortex exist without the etheicsolution. As previously stated, in the beginning of a vortex it is long, but in course of timeit hath a tendency to become round like a globe, but flattened a little at the poles. Thisalso happeneth to every vortex that carrieth a satellite: That the periphery of the vortex isundulated; and the extent of its undulation can be determined by the minimum andmaximum distance of the satellite from its planet.
14. In consequence of this discrepancy, the lens power of the vortex of the earth variesconstantly, even daily, monthly and yearly. Nevertheless, the sum of heat and cold and thesum of light and darkness are nearly the same, one generation with another. This was, bythe ancient prophets, called the FIRSTRULE INPROPHECY. This was again subdivided bythree, into eleven years, whereof it was found that one eleven years nearly correspondedwith another eleven years. This was the SECONDRULE INPROPHECY.The THIRDRULEwasNINETY- NINE YEARS, whereto was added one year.
15. In the case of the tides, a still further allowance of six years was found necessary totwo hundred; but in the succeeding four hundred years a deduction was required of fiveyears. Whereupon the moon's time was eighteen years.
16. As the lens power loseth by flattening the vortex, and increaseth by rounding thevortex, it will be observed that the position of the moon's vortex relatively to the earth's,is a fair conclusion as to the times of ebb and flood tide. In periods of thirty-three years,therefore, tables can be constructed expressing very nearly the variations of vortexya forevery day in the year, and to prophesy correctly as to the winters and summers, so far aslight and darkness, and heat and cold, are concerned. This flattening and rounding of thevortexian lens of the earth is one cause of the wonderful differences between the heat ofone summer compared with another, and of the difference in the coldness of winters, ascompared with one another. Of these also, tables can be made. Winter tables made by theancients were based on periods of six hundred and sixty-six years, and were calledSATAN�S TABLES, or the TIMES OF THE BEAST. Tables made on such a basis are superior tocalculations made on the relative position of the moon.
17. But where they have prophesied ebb and flood tide to be caused by certain positionsof the moon, they have erred in suffering themselves to ignorantly believe the cause laywith the moon. A man may prophesy by a traveling wagon what time it will reach town;but the correctness of his prophecy does not prove that the wagon pushed the horse totown. These revelations pertain more to the cause of things, than to giving newprophecies. What mortals can not discover by any corporeal observation must come byinspiration. In the year 4 B.K. Leverrier, of France, prophesied the existence of Neptuneby the calculation of planetary disturbances. Other discoveries have been made in thesame way; whereupon they have believed the said disturbances to be caused by oneplanet's power on another.
18. Planetary disturbances are not caused by any power or effect of one planet on another;the cause of the disturbances lieth in the vortices wherein they float. Mortals can not seethe vortices; their only means of prophesying lieth in corpor. A man may prophesy of themoon by calculations of the disturbances of the tides. But to attribute to the tides thecause of the moon's position would be no more erroneous than to attribute the cause oftides to the moon.
19. It is not the intention, in these revelations, to give new calculations in regard tooccurrences on the planets; it is a trifling difference whether a man prophesy by a vortexor by a planet. Wherein he erreth in regard to judging the cause of things, he should beput on the right road. Wherein he hath had no knowledge of the forces and currents of theunseen worlds and their dominion over the seen worlds, revelation only can reach him.
20. They have said there are five elements of corpor; then again sixty; and a hundred. Butin time they will say there are millions. And yet all of them are comprehended in the wordcorpor. To resolve them, discover them, and classify them, and their combinations, is thework of man. Where they are aggregated together, as the earth, the result is called aCREATION, or a created world. When such a globe is dissolved in ethe and sublimated, it issaid a world is destroyed, or a star is destroyed. Nevertheless, in any of these operations,no one ingredient as such is annihilated. What is creation more than to make a drop ofrain; or the dissolution of a world more than the evaporation of a drop of water?
21. Pour a few drops of water on a table covered with dust, and each drop will become aglobe. Look for them tomorrow, and they are gone (evaporated). The globe is annihilated(for it was not a thing in fact), but the water, which was the thing, is not annihilated, butevaporated. The term annihilation applieth to such as are not things in fact, but which areforms and figures. A ray of light (so-called) can be annihilated; but that that comprised itcan not be annihilated.
22. Were the earth's vortex to break, the earth would be precipitated into dissolution,under ordinary conditions. But were the earth's vortex to be swallowed in the vortex ofanother planet, then the earth would be precipitated as a globe to such planet. Such is thecase as regardeth double stars, and triplets and quadruplets, especially where they are incontact. The same principle holdeth in regard to the vortices of some nebulae and comets;one is frequently swallowed up within another. But in such case the corpor commingleth.
23. In the case of double stars, and triplets, and so on, if conjoined, the center ofgravitation (so-called) is not to each one, but to the intervening center between them. Thepolarity of such a group is as to the vortex. Think not, however, that double stars ortriplets or quadruples are the limit of combinations in one vortex. There are clusters ofplanets, hundreds of them, thousands, and even millions, that sometimes occupy onevortex.
24. As a globe can be annihilated, so can a vortex, and so can vortexya; for none of theseare things of themselves in fact, but combinations in some given place or condition; butthe corpor of such expression of known forms and figures and motions can not beannihilated.
25. Though the general form of a vortex, as before stated, in its beginning is long, funnel-shaped(like a whirlwind), its ultimate is toward a globular form. And though thecurrent of a vortex is spiral, at first, its currents ultimate toward less spirality. If onecould imagine a very long serpent in spiral form, constantly turning its head in at onepole, and its tail at the other, and forever crawling upon its own spirality, such aview would somewhat illustrate the currents of a vortex. (See cuts in GOD�S BOOK OF BEN)
26. In one plate the black center representeth a planet, and the black spot with the letter"S" representeth a satellite. The white lines indicate the course of the vortexian currents,but purposely exaggerated in the drawing. First, to show the undulation in the vortexwhere the satellite resteth, and secondly, to show the head turning in at one end, and thebulge of the tail ready to overlap itself, wherefrom there is an excess of light manifestedin the tail (northern) regions.
27. Were the currents of the vortex to attain due east and west lines, without polar outcropping,the winds would cease to blow on the face of the earth. The air and the earthwould ultimate in equilibrium in axial revolution.
28. Herein lieth the cause of the winds chiefly; nevertheless, high mountain ranges ofirregular forms, and places on the earth's surface, add considerably to breaking andchanging the currents that would otherwise result. The transcendent heat of the tropicalatmosphere would seem to call for replacement from the north and south by cold currentsof wind; but it must be remembered that only a few miles up from the earth thetemperature of the tropical air is as low as the polar air. Only so far as icebergs floattoward the equator is there any very perceptible lowering of the temperature of the air,and of wind currents toward the tropics.
29. As previously stated, in describing the positive current of vortexya being in the formof a right-angle triangle, with the angle in the center of the earth, and one leg toward thenorth pole, and one in the east, at the equator, it will now be perceived that the greatestcold region of the earth can not be at either the equator or the poles, but must occupyplaces distant from the poles in the exact ratio of the difference in the power between thepositive and negative currents of vortexya and m'vortexya, and corresponding to theatmospherean lens of the earth.
