“Scientists Make a rare find: A Solar system with three Super-Earths”

super earth artist's conception

Three Super-Earths and two Super-Mercuries, a type of planet that is extraordinarily rare and distinct, have been found in a star system Ƅy astronoмers. Super-Mercuries are so uncoммon—only eight haʋe Ƅeen found so far—that they are extremely rare.

ESPRESSO’s spectrograph detected two ‘super-Mercury’ worlds in the star system HD 23472. Astronoмers have discovered that these planets are extremely rare. This study, published in Astronoмy &aмp; Astrophysics, looked at how the coмposition of tiny planets varies with planet position, teмperature, and star attriƄutes.

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“NASA image reveals hidden sunlight that may help solve solar mystery”

NASA Newstar Sun

As a new series of NASA observations show, there’s a lot more to sunlight than meets the eye.

New observations by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) revealed patterns of high-energy light from the Sun that are not visible to the human eye.

This hidden light could help solve a mystery related to our host star’s incredibly hot outer atmosphere, the corona.

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Link contributed by Marilyn Taylor.

“Annular Solar Eclipse of October 14, 2023″

solar eclipse path, Oct. 2023

A big eclipse event for us in North America comes on October 14, 2023. Viewers along a narrow path in North, Central and South America will see an annular solar eclipse. At mid-eclipse, the moon – in a distant part of its orbit – will pass directly in front of the sun. But the sun – slightly larger in the sky on that day than the moon – will appear as a bright ring, or annulus, around the moon. Even for those along the eclipse path, eclipse glasses will be needed throughout. Still … a fascinating event!

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Services for the Week of May 6, 2023

Saturday, May 6, 2023
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy Jr.
Lector: RM Elizabeth Reece
Cantor: Dea. Stephan Fuelling
Reader: Sabrina Savoy

Saturday, May 6, 2023
6:00 PM PANNUCHES
RRF Gene Savoy Jr.
RF Ted Staver

Sunday, May 7, 2023
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
New Pentacost Church
Leave: 4:45
Gate: 5:35
Sunrise: 6:02
RRF Gene Savoy Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Rev. Barbara Whitney

OPEN-AIR COMMUNION

Church of The Christian Churches RF Ted Staver

Church of the Races of Man Rev. Michael McIntyre

Wednesday, May 10, 2023
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.

Friday, May 12, 2023
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RF Ted Staver

Reverend Barbara Whitney Appointed Matriarch

On April 18th, 2023, Second Advent Easter, Bishop Gene Savoy, Jr appointed Reverend Barbara Whitney to the Holy Order of Matriarchs. Her title henceforth is The Reverend Mother.

Congratulations on your appointment, Barbara.

Those Life Knows and Those Life Ignores

“I hear the voice of the seven planets, who whisper to one another, ‘Blessings on the Father of the poor one: he is the one who tends the fruit tree. We have no Father and no one to tend our tree.’ Welcome to anyone life knows, and sorrow to whomever life ignores. Welcome to anyone life knows, and who stays on earth free from the world of imperfection where the planets live. They sit on rebel thrones and work with a whip. Gold and silver excite them, and they cast war into the world. They cast war into the world, and they will roast in fire. The evil will roast in fire, their glory gone. But my family and I will ascend and see the place of light where the sun does not go down, where lamps of light never dim, the place, the house to which your souls are called and invited in, souls of our kin, of the good, and of our believing brothers and sisters. There life is extolled.” ~Song from the Mandaean liturgy

Voice of Seven Planets

To man ancient peoples, the planets were also gods, and I think it is in that sense that this song refers to the seven planets. It is odd, though, that this song has them praising the true God. This may also be an allegorical reference to the energy centers of the human body.

Blessings on the Father

As this song is from the liturgy of the Mandaeans, it should naturally begin by blessing the Father, although He really doesn’t need our blessing, we need His. The statement that this Father of the poor is the one who “tends the fruit tree,” means that He is the one responsible for life and creation. As for being the Father of the Poor, “the poor” are those who have not been trapped in the constant pursuit of material gain. They don’t necessarily live in poverty, but they place spiritual growth above the endless pursuit for material goods that so many engage in these days.

Those who whisper that they have no Father are the ones listening to the false gods of matter. They are lost souls unless they become awakened.

Life Knows

You might think that life knows everyone, but this is talking about those who have become spiritually awake and are living eternally, as opposed to those who have only a temporary life in the realm of matter. The soul is always immortal, but if you don’t awaken it and unite with it, you are not one of those who have eternal life.

Rebel Thrones

Those who sit on rebel thrones and seek gold and silver are the leaders who have turned away from God and embraced materialism. They are rebels because, in the distant past, kings took advice from priests and followed God’s Law. Today, few if any political leaders truly follow God. As the song says, these evil ones will eventually “roast in fire,” but that should be taken as an allegory. The point is, they won’t go to Heaven unless they change.

Place of Light

The song ends by saying that those who follow The Way, will go to the Place of Light, where the sun never goes down. This, of course, is Heaven, the highest dimension of reality, the highest level of consciousness that we humans can reach.

The Perfect Fruit of the Father is Like the Father

“The Phrygians also say that the Father of all is an almond, not the tree, but that preexistent almond that has within itself the perfect fruit, palpitating and moving in its interior. It tore open its own womb and brought forth its invisible and unnamable and ineffable child, of whom we are speaking. To tear open is to tear open and cut through, just as physicians call scarifications the incisions that they make in inflamed bodies or in those that contain some tumor. So the Phrygians call almond the being from which the invisible one came forth and was begotten, and “through whom everything came into existence and apart from him the nonexistent was made.” The being so born is called a flute player because what was born is a harmonious breath or spirit. “God is a spirit. Therefore the true worshipers will worship neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem, but in spirit.” The worship of the perfect ones is spiritual, not carnal. The spirit is there where the father and the son are named, the son born of the father. He is the many-named one, many-eyed, incomprehensible, toward which every nature strives, and each in its own way. He is the expressed word of god, which is the word of declaration of the great power. So the word is sealed and hidden and veiled, lying in the dwelling on which the root of all is founded, the root of aeons, powers, thoughts, gods, angels, envoy spirits—existent and nonexistent, generated and ungenerated, incomprehensible and comprehensible, years, months, days, hours, and an indivisible point from which the smallest being will come forth, part by part, to grow. The nonexistent, underived, indivisible point will, by its own thought, become an incomprehensible greatness. This is the kingdom of heaven, the grain of mustard seed, the indivisible point existing in the body, which no one but the spiritual ones alone know. This is the meaning of the words, ‘there are no words or language, whose voices are not heard.’” ~The Naassene sermon

Like an Almond

I doubt that the Pyrygians said the Father of All was an almond. I think it is more likely that they said He was like an almond, at least in certain ways. To some of the ancient civilizations, the almond symbolized Purity, perfection, faith, fertility, hope, grief, and luck, and in Numbers 17:8 and Hebrews 9:4, Aaron’s rod sprouts sweet almonds for the followers of God’s laws, with the promise that forsaking these laws will turn the almonds bitter and inedible. So to say that the Father was an almond is to say that He is perfection, purity, and the source of all hope for humanity.

Tore Open Its Womb

Aying that God tore open His womb is an odd way to put it, but nonetheless an accurate way to say that Gog created everything from Himself as He was all that existed. If you think that God is male and doesn’t have a womb, you are thinking of God as a human, which He isn’t. God is not male or female, and yet He is both, because God is everything, so in the sense that He has a center of creation from which all things are “born,” He does have a womb.

Invisible and Unnameable Child

Here, again, the quote uses allegory. This is not a reference to Jesus, though it may be a reference to Christ. Jesus was a man who was, for a time, a messiah and a Christ, but the Christ spirit is immortal and has existed forever. The Naassene sermon calls him unnameable because Christ is a name we have given him, not what God named him.

True Worshipers

It is true that God is spirit so we must worship Him in spirit. When the Naassene’s say that true worshipers don’t worship In Jerusalem or on a mountain, they mean that worship is a spiritual thing rather than a physical one. So it is not necessary to go to a special place to Worship, except to go to your own spirit and spiritual faculties. In order to do that, you must awaken and develop those spiritual faculties. The best way to do that is to use the Light of the Spiritual Sun or Son of Righteousness.

The Word is Sealed

It was true that the word was “ sealed and hidden and veiled,” but it is no longer so. It is being revealed through the Light of the Son of Righteousness, but only to those ready to hear it, and willing to use this Divine Knowledge to further the Goal of God to redeem the world, rather than to benefit themselves. We benefit from spiritual development, but the primary goal should be to redeem the world.

“To Liпk The Earth Αпd The Suп Α Magпetic Gate Will Օpeп, Every 8 Miпutes”

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Αccordiпg to NΑSΑ, a magпetic gateway will opeп, liпkiпg the Earth aпd the Suп at a distaпce of 150 millioп kilometers.

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Αccordiпg to space physicist David Seebeck of NΑSΑ’s Goddard Space Flight Ϲeпter, it’s kпowп as a “flυx traпsfer eveпt” or “FTE.” “I was coпviпced they didп’t exist iп 1998, bυt the proof is пow irrefutable.” Indeed, David Seebeck established their existence in 2008 at a plasma coпfereпce iп Hυпtsville, Αlabama, where he presented his fiпdiпgs to a worldwide gatheriпg of space physicists.

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“Webb telescope sees once invisible structures inside spiral galaxies | CNN”

Spiral galaxy through Webb Telescope.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths.

The space observatory can see the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, making the telescope uniquely poised to look through the dust that obscures some galactic features when less powerful telescopes are used.

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Article contributed by Gene Savoy, Jr.

“Laser mapping technology reveals sprawling, interconnected Maya site | CNN”

Maya site

With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the early Mayan way of life was once impossible to see. But laser technology has helped researchers discover a previously unknown 650-square-mile (1,683-square-kilometer) Maya site that offers startling new insights about ancient Mesoamericans and their civilization.

The researchers detected the vast site within the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin of northern Guatemala by using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology, a laser mapping system that allows for structures to be detected below the thick tree canopies. The resulting map showed an area composed of 964 settlements broken down into 417 interconnected Mayan cities, towns and villages.

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Link contributed by Gene Savoy, Jr.