CHAPTER IV.
1. The currents of the vortex of the earth being in constant change, the following resultshappen. In the regions where they overlap one another, and break to a limited extent,producing discord in motion, certain eddies and whirlpools result, and the corpor insolution is condensed, like little planets or meteoric stones, varying in size from a pin'shead to ten or twenty miles in diameter. And the little broken currents in the vortex losetheir prey, and the meteoric stones or little planets are carried by the vortexian currentdown to the earth's surface. (See plates Wark, GOD’SBOOK OFBEN.)
2. The belt in atmospherea where these things happen is usually about five or six or sevenhundred miles up from the earth's surface. But the belt sometimes ascendeth a thousandmiles. But at other distances upward other belts exist; and others still beyond, and so on.
3. Another result that happeneth from these overlapping currents in the vortex, is theproduction of rain and snow and hail. Certain parts of the earth are given to snow; certainparts to rain and hail; and other parts to drought. In drought regions the vortexianoverlappings descend to the very earth, where they are called by various names, such ascyclones, whirlwinds and so on; but if they occur on the ocean, carrying either up or downa current of water, they are termed water-spouts. In regions where there are rain, hail andsnow falls, the vortexian commotion taketh place from half a mile to three miles abovethe earth's surface. Here the discord resulteth in liberating the moisture which was intransparent solution, and clouds result. But if the commotion continue, these are,atomically, still further liberated, and either rain or snow or hail resulteth, which is carrieddown to the earth.
4. The places in the vortex of the earth where these discords result are nearly uniform intheir relative distance from the earth, and in the times of the occurrence, having specialreference to the prophetic periods previously given.
5. Refer to plate 44, in Book of Ben where will be seen a variety of representations of theforms and figures of snow-flakes. But these are not all; there are thousands of millions ofthem, differing so much from one another that description is not possible. As previouslystated, corpor being in solution in ethe, hath in the main the shape of needles, but of suchinfinitesimal size that corporeal knowledge of them can only be, at most, subjectiveknowledge. But in the snow-flake are both the casting and the mold of discordantm'vortexian currents.
6. But it must be borne in mind that where one snow-flake is molded in one moment,another snow-flake molded in the same place the next moment, and so on, woulddisplay no two snow-flakes alike. Three stages may be described in the discordant results: first, the cloud; second, the frozen cloud, which is snow; and third, the rain-drop or hailstone.
7. In the meteoric regions (which are above such clouds as produce rain) corpor alsopresenteth three stages of development, which are: Ash-clouds, transparent or otherwise;and crystal needles; and meteoric stones. The latter only, as a general rule, areprecipitated to the earth. But on certain occasions, both the other forms of corpor are alsoprecipitated to the earth.
8. Allowing a certain size to rain clouds, which are near the earth, corporeal clouds highup in the vortex, are proportionately larger according to the ratio of the differencebetween their globular circumference and that of the lower strata. So also are thediscordant waves proportionally longer, wider and deeper.
9. It is an error to say that the atmosphere of the earth decreaseth gradually andcontinually in specific gravity according to the distance above the earth.
10. It is an error to say that there is any gravity in it, save only that it precipitatethformations like rain, snow, hail and meteoric stones. As before shown, these things haveno gravity of their own to go in any direction. Nor is there any attraction in the earth topull them down. They are driven to the earth by the vortexian current. But the pointherein now considered is, the commonly expressed knowledge of men, that theatmosphere hath less density outward, away from the earth, in proportion to thedistance from the earth's surface. In one respect this is an error; in another a truth: As todensityPER SE there is no difference in the atmosphere on the face of the earth comparedto that of a thousand miles high, or a hundred thousand miles high. It is all in evenbalance, as to pressure and density, PER SE .But because the etheic solution of corporis more sublimated by swifter axial motion in the higher regions, and because thelower regions contain less perfectly dissolved corpor, the difference hath beenimproperly described. Air is no heavier because of rain; the weight lieth in the rain only.
11. Hence the gravity (so-called) of the atmosphere hath reference only to imperfectsolutions of corpor. And it is true that a superabundance of these imperfect solutions arenear the earth.
12. At the sea-level a certain pressure seemeth to manifest, as in a barometer; on a highmountain a less pressure seemeth to manifest. There is also a variation in the barometeraccording to certain conditions of the atmosphere. The difference is not that the pressureof the atmosphere is different; the pressure of the atmosphere, PER SE , is the same in alldirections, high and low. The cause of the variation of the barometer is in reference todistension (sublimated solution of corpor), and hath no reference to pressure as such. Thiscapacity to distension is not only external to the barometer, but within it also; so that as ameasure of atmospheric pressure PER SE it is entirely worthless. The suction pump, orinverted tube filled with water, showeth the pressure of the atmosphere upward as well asdownward, and showeth what the pressure is.
13. Wherefrom it is shown there is no such thing as attraction of gravitation of theatmosphere toward the earth more than away from it. Where the atmosphere isovercharged with an imperfect solution of corpor, or snow or rain, that excess is thatwhich balanceth toward the earth. But this also only applieth in regions close to theearth's surface. Fifty or a hundred thousand miles up from the earth, the axial velocityof the vortex is so great that rain or snow would be instantaneously dissolved,distended and lost to sight. Consequently the solutions in the higher atmosphere notonly contain moisture, but they contain iron, lead, zinc, gold, platinum, clay, granite,diamonds and all other things known to exist on the earth, and many others besides.
14. In the early age of the vortex of the earth, so swiftly flew the outer rim that bordereddies ensued, from which nebula congregated, until the earth had a nebulous belt aroundit. This belt, in time, losing pace with the earth's vortex, condensed and made the moon.
15. But to return to the snow-flake and to the needles of the corpor whilst in the etheicsolutions: On a cloudy day these solutions or needles (mist, or dull atmosphere) are moreor less transverse to the vortexian lines. In a clear day the needles are linear to the earth,and this is the reason it is a clear day. The latter direction of the needles may be calleddirect, and the former indirect. Wherein they are direct, and they fall on the photo-plate,the force of their blows is called actinic force, and it is the same as where they fall on thewet linen in the bleachman's field. In this actinic blow a weak electric flame is producedby each needle; hence the bleaching power, and also the power to blister an exposed skinwhich hath been kept for years in the dark (negative).
16. If a solution of iron, transparent, or of quinine, or other recipient of negativeelectricity, be sprinkled on the cloth, the actinic ray will not result in the electric spark,and no bleaching effect will be produced; and even, sometimes, on the contrary, a blackspot will result.
17. Wherever the vortexian current falleth, corpor is more or less damaged or dissolved,or changed in its combinations. On a piece of iron, fresh broken, it produceth rust. Because the vortexian solution contained oxygen, this effect hath been called oxidation. Nevertheless, in point of fact, oxygen of itself is inert: The break of its needles liberatethvortexya, which result is a minor representation of the discharge of an electric spark fromthe pole of a battery.
18. As previously stated, the vortexian currents are to the earth in the daylight;and from the earth in the night; although their force is toward the center of the earth(from the east) and toward the north pole afterward. The following result happeneth: Forexample, a pool of water is charged during the day with the positive current; during thenight the negative current escapeth upward from the water. The decomposition resultingtherefrom is called se'mu (green scum), a mucilaginous substance which floateth on thesurface of the water. In some days' time this se'mu, by motion (from some external cause),assumeth certain defined shapes, crystalline, fibrous and otherwise, after the manner ofstrange configurations of frost on a window-pane. In some days after this, if the se'mu beexamined with a lens it will be discovered that here are miniature trees, even forests, withvines and grasses. No seed was there.
19. This new property is called LIFEand because it existeth everywhere it is calledOMNIPRESENT. Man can account for the se'mu; for the positive and negative forces; forcorpor and for ethe; but Life is unfathomable by man. The se'mu (green scum) floatethagainst the ground; its infinitesimal trees and vines and grasses take root and grow, andlive a season and die; but from the roots and seeds a larger growth succeedeth. Thusbecometh all the world inhabited over with living creatures. Nevertheless not one thingof all of them mergeth into another; but every one bringeth forth after its own kind.
20. Man inquireth of the earth, the rocks, the air, and of all things: Who is this Life? This Omnipresent that quickeneth into life all the living? But none can answer him. Thenman inquireth of LIFE: "WHO ART THOU O LIFE?" And the answer cometh to the soul ofman: "I AM LIFE! I AM THE I AM! I AM THE EVER PRESENT! ALL THAT THOU SEEST IN EARTHOR HEAVEN, AND EVEN IN THE UNSEEN WORLDS, ALSO, ARE MY VERY PERSON! I AM THE WHOLE!"
CHAPTER V.
1. In the transposition of needles of corpor from parallel polarity to mixed or transversepositions, are produced all kinds of colors. It is an error to say: Wave of light, or bent rayof light, or that a given number of vibrations or undulations produce different kinds ofcolors; there is neither wave nor undulation in fact. Needles are arbitrary and can not bebent. Compare a needle to a transparent glass crystal. Place a given number of these endto end, touching, and in a line: To bend this line is impossible, save at angles, for whereevery two ends join there will be an angle: Be the needles ever so short there will be nobend in fact, but a succession of arbitrary lines and elbows.
2. Such is not, however, the juxtaposition, save when they are in a line direct; otherwisethe ends of the needles do not bend like joints, but each one turneth more or less on itsown axis. If they all turn, an APPARENT wave is produced, expressive of a certain color; ifpart of them turn, another color is produced. In proportion to this disturbance, so are theAPPARENT vibrations slow or fast, as to mortal observation.
3. In regions of the earth's atmosphere where they have cyclones, reddish lights appear inthe firmament, even before the cyclone manifesteth on the earth. And these lights travelwith the cyclone, manifesting great heat on the earth. In the regions of monsoons, asimilar manifestation occurreth, but generally with pink or bluish lights instead of red, ifover the ocean; but if over the land, a smoky atmosphere resulteth.
4. These colors, and all others, manifested in atmospherea, are not confined to the earthstratum, but they extend even to the outer extreme of the earth's vortex. And in manyinstances they are so altitudinous that their manifestations are imperceptible to mortalobservation, save that, for example, the moon or the sun shineth less brightly. When oneof the transpositions is dark and is high up in the atmosphere at night, they say the moonis surrounded by a haze. And yet, the while, the atmospheric stratum next the earth maybe clear.
5. The earth's vortex hath millions of these strata, and of various colors, shades and tints. In taking photographs of the moon or the sun, these often interpose, and the picture takendeceiveth the observer, that he hath made a picture of the oxygen or hydrogen of theplanet's atmosphere.
6. The same state of affairs belongeth also in the sun's vortex; so that, with these cloudsof color intervening in etherea, the telescope encountereth much travail.
7. As a vortex groweth older, these disturbances, together with imperfect solutions ofcorpor, become less frequent. So also in the early age of a vortex they are more frequentand of longer duration. So that, at times, a red light, or blue light, or other color, willoverspread the earth for periods of a thousand or more years without interruption. And insome cases, darkness for as long a period. Whatever living thing, as herbs and trees,grasses and so on, were quickened into life during darkness, were without eyes. Nevertheless, in this day, even these things turn toward the light; as plants and flowersplaced in a window will manifest.
8. Where se'mu was quickened into life in lighter times, it focalized toward the light, andthis focus was called an eye. And such as were thus quickened into life, and not attachedto the earth by fibers or roots, were called animals. And the LIFE they inherited gavepower unto them, to go about from place to place. So great are the powers of the eyes ofsome animals that they can see and distinguish in the darkest of nights. Such eyes areabsorbents of vortexya, and they shine in the dark.
9. Hence the first organs of sense created in any animal were the eyes; whereof it hathbeen said, the eye is the seed of the tree of knowledge. The sight of the eye is thebeginning of self-creation, in acquiring knowledge; and it doeth by going forth andstaying at home at the same time. The sight of the eye is a miniature sun, sending forthand receiving vortexian power at the same time. As may be proved by looking on theeyelids of a person sleeping, who will awake because thereof.
10. Since, then, the eye of man can go forth with intelligent power, controlling things,it hath been concluded since thousands of years, by the wisest philosophers, that anAll Seeing Eye is the Cause and Creator of the whole universe, which is His Person.
11. In the first quickening of eyes, they partook of the color of the vortexian lights at thattime; and even so at the same period of time were colored the skins of mortals, andaccording to their surroundings, some light, some dark, and some red, or yellow, orcopper-colored.
12. And all of them propagated after their own kind, and do so to this day. And thoughthe blacks might live for thousands of generations with themselves only, in any country inthe world, they would never become whites. And the same rule applieth to whites andbrowns, and all the races of man.
13. But because they can mix, and because that mixture can propagate, all the racesof man are one and the same in all their organs and capabilities. Now, as previouslystated, white things manufacture a white atmosphere around them; whilst black thingsdo not (being negative). The white give off, or radiate light and power; the black arenot radiants. The white man's radiating power recoileth upon himself, and he sufferethwith heat. So also with the white bear. The black man and black bear are the reverse.
14. Wherefrom this rule will now be plain to the student: When a planet hath attained toso great age she no longer giveth forth light or heat to radiate upon herself, she can not beseen in the heavens. Of which kinds of planets there are millions in the ethereanfirmament. Some of these move slower than any of the planets man can see. Some ofthese at times eclipse the sun, and are taken for sun-spots, although, perhaps, not amillion miles from the earth.
15. Like unto these, in darkness, are there plateaux of nebula floating in the firmament,which also produce eclipses of the sun and of the moon. For convenience, let such planetsand nebula be called dead planets and dead nebula. And that there are millions of suchbodies, sufficient to eclipse the sun, or a star, or the moon, the different periods ofdarkness on the earth will prove.
16. In prophesying the tendency of a planet's approach to death, refer once more to themoon: Now the moon hath, as to the earth's face, no axial revolution. But it must beremembered the moon can not go around the earth without making an actual axialrevolution. Seventy and one-half revolutions of the moon's vortex complete one travelaround the earth's vortex. Consequently we arrive at the exact speed of the moon'svortexya and the strength of light and heat manifested on the moon. The student shouldmake allowance for the moon's ellipse, for the light of the moon is much stronger (as seenfrom the earth) some times than others.
17. Place the se'muan age at ninety-nine degrees, the time of quickening animal life. Itwill be found that the moon at such period must have had an axial motion, facing theearth, of three and four-sevenths' times faster than the earth. Whilst at the same period oftime the earth made its daily revolution in what would now be twenty-one hours and fortyminutes. This would give a difference in animal heat of two and a half degrees ofvortexya on the earth, as compared to the se'muan age. Consequently large animals,which are now extinct, had a temperature (average) higher of two and a half degrees thanat present. Wherein we perceive three hours and seventeen minutes' loss in axial motionproduced a loss of two and a half degrees of vortexian heat.
18. The difference, therefore, on the moon, in temperature below blood-heat and what itnow must be, must correspond exactly with its comparative slowness (one revolution amonth), as to the loss manifested on the earth. Now, although the student will discoverthe moon hath fallen to a temperature far below zero, yet it emitteth both light and heat.
19. To find the se'muan age (especially of man), place his temperature at ninety-eight(for good health), and one hundred and two at inflammation or death. Four below normalwill, therefore, be the period of man's inhabitation of the earth. After the vortexianradiation reacheth this period, man will cease to propagate, and, so, become extinct as tothe earth.
20. This giveth man eight degrees of vortexya as the sum of his existence. One degree isequivalent to twelve million seven hundred and sixty thousand radi c'vorkum. The serpent's coil would be one and one-fourth. That is, twenty-four thousand years tothe time of completion. Thus, 12,760,000 divided by 260,000 add 1,402 1-2 add24,000 x 3 = 76,750 years, the time of the se'muan age for man. To this should be addedone cycle, of, say, three thousand years, which was the beginning of the fall of se'mu.
21. By reversing these measurements, find the axial decrease of the earth in seventy-eightthousand years, which will be just one hundred minutes, or 3-340ths of a second annually,which is the earth's decline in speed. For which reason the first of the race of man onearth began about seventy-eight thousand years B.K.
CHAPTER VI.
1. To return to the master vortex; refer to plate TOW-SANG, BOOK OF BEN. It is an error tosay that the eye seeth the sun by means of a straight line. The line of sight to the sun isspiral and oval. But it is equally an error to say that light cometh from the sun to the earth,or to any other planet; which hath given rise to the still greater errors of computing thetime of travel of light, and the degree of heat of a planet by its proximity to the sun.
2. To determine the distance of the sun from the earth, allowance must be made for thevortexian spirality. By which reason the sun is in fact some seven million miles nearer theearth than its measure would indicate. The same rule applieth to all planets save themoon. And even this is seen by means of the curved lines of the earth's vortex.
3. As the moon's vortex rideth around on the outer part of the earth's vortex, we discoverthe elliptic course thereof; so by the roads of a comet do we discover the spirality andcurve of the master's vortex. Observe a comet in different positions as it followeth thesun's vortex.
4. When the head of a comet falleth within the overlapping waves of the sun's vortex, thehead is sometimes swallowed up and sometimes driven backward, spitting flames of firethe while. The nearer the comet approacheth an elliptic course, the longer will it live; theopposite condition applieth to hyperbolic comets, for they oft die or dissolve in onejourney. If a comet be seen today in hyperbole, and in any angle of the heavens; and if, inten years or a hundred years, a comet be seen in the same place, it would be an error tosay it was the same comet.
5. It is an error to prophesy the heat of Venus being more or less because of herapproximation nearer the sun. There is no more heat in the master vortex in general, thanthere is a hundred miles above the earth, save and except when very near the sun'sphotosphere, that is to say, within one or two thousand miles at most.
6. There is a sun planet in the center of the photosphere, at a distance interior, from threethousand miles to thirty thousand miles, and it is light all the way around. But within thebody of the photosphere there are numerous planets, some globular, some elongated andirregular. These are usually called sun-spots. Because when they present their negativesurface toward the earth they seem black. For the most part these planets in thephotosphere are rather external than internal at the times they appear as spots. They haveindependent motions in their respective places.
7. Wherefrom it may be said: When an unlearned man saith: THESUN,we know what hemeaneth; but when a learned man saith: THESUN,we know not what he meaneth, whetherthe whole central group, or the sun planet only.
8. If one were to go into a circular field, a little way from the middle, and there constructan electric battery, from which he extendeth outward a multitude of wires, to smallbatteries in distant parts of the field, his batteries would then represent somewhat thesolar phalanx, the central one being the sun. There would be more volume of electricitymanifested at the central battery; but the intensity of the spark at one of the small batterieswould, other things being equal, be equal to the spark at the central battery.
9. Neither is there more intensity of heat at the sun, than in any electric flash. Neithermust it be surmised that the sun center is an electric battery; nor that it supplieth in anysense anything to any other planet. As previously stated, there are two things, corpor andethe; the latter is the solvent of corpor. Whirling vortices of the solution make planets. And these are the sum and substance of all things manifested in the universe. (As to thecause of these whirlpools, see BOOK OF JEHOVIH)
10. It is an error to say the sun threw off rings or planets. No thing hath power to throwoff itself, or a part thereof, save some living creature. They have instanced water flyingfrom the periphery of a rapidly rotating wheel. This would merely imply that some onewas trying to fasten worlds on the sun's periphery, but that the sun cast them off. Whothat SOME ONE was they say not; nor do they offer a reason as to how such thrown-offsubstance came to be in the way of the sun in the first place.
11. It is equally erroneous to say that the presence of this planet or that, throwethan influence on mortals, according to their birth under certain stars. It is thissame astrological ignorance that attributeth to the sun the throwing-off of light and heatand of possessing attraction of gravitation, and of throwing-off rings to make planets of.
12. Man hath ever sought in corporeal things for the cause of this and that; he buildeth upcertain tables and diagrams, and calleth it science or philosophy. If, on one morning, heput on the left shoe first, and something happen that day, he proveth by that shoe a newphilosophy. By the tides he proveth the cause of the moon; or by the moon the cause ofthe tides. Anything under the sun that is corporeal, rather than search in the subtle andpotent, unseen worlds.
13. Let it be premised, then, that the etherean firmament is not a waste and interminablenothingness; but that, on the contrary, it is in many regions, even between the earth andthe sun, sufficiently dense for a corporeal man to dwell upon, and to walk about, even ason the earth. Some of these are as transparent as water or clear glass, and some opaque. Some of these etherean worlds are large as the earth, and some a thousand times larger. Some are as immense facsimiles of snow-flakes; with arches a thousand miles high andbroad. Some of them are as oceans of water; some transparent and some opaque; andsome of them dense clouds of ashes. But so great are the numbers and so vast thevarieties of these thousands of millions of etherean worlds, that description is impossible. Yet, by the telescopic power of the earth's vortexian lens, these worlds are magnified soas to seem to be nonentities.
14. Worlds in solution, the etherean heavens, are therefore governed by no power in, orescaping from, corporeal worlds. In the language of the ancient prophets, they are a lawunto themselves. And yet these unseen worlds have much power and influence on thevortices of corporeal worlds.
15. In making observations with the spectroscope, these otherwise unseen worlds aresometimes seen; but in a general way the spectroscope revealeth only the refraction ofhigh altitudes in the earth's vortex. It is an error to say the spectrum divideth the sun's raysPER SE. It is an error to say the spectroscope hath revealed certain colors in the atmosphereor photosphere of the sun or other stars. Its revelations for the most part pertain to what iscontained in the vortexian lens of the earth, no matter whether the view be toward the sunor another star.
