Astronomers studying the formation of a distant star have discovered a cloud of water in space. The water, which is both regular water as we know it from Earth, as well as heavy water – water where one of the hydrogen atoms has been replaced by deuterium – could offer new insights into the origins of water in our solar system.
Stars are basically spherical, and when they explode, the explosions are spherical too. Most of the time.
But an international team of astronomers has observed a disc-shaped explosion – the thinnest yet known to science.
The explosion is called a Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT): a rare event that astronomers have only known about for the past five years. They’re also called ‘cows’.
Astronomers have observed a rare case of a galaxy shapeshifting.
A few decades ago, an object located some 630 million light-years away named PBC J2333.9-2343 was classified as a giant radio galaxy. It projected large, radio-emitting structures perpendicular to our line of sight, formed by colossal jets that once erupted from the galactic center.
Patrick Manson Newman May 15, 1930 – June 20, 2023
Of Scottish descent, Patrick was born in Turtlehead, Saskatchewan, on May 15, 1930. He was an electrical engineer, graduating from the University of Alberta, Engineering School. Patrick then went to university in Manchester, England studying electronic engineering and earning another degree.
While in England, Patrick and his wife, Marie, made numerous trips to Scotland, which was both his and Marie’s ancestral home. He did a lot of hiking in the highlands. During those years, they also explored much of Europe.
After he graduated, Patrick got a job working in Iran. He and Marie were there for 3 years while Pat helped to install the electric grid in Iran. After leaving Iran, Pat went to work for the Canadian Broadcast Company. He and Marie lived in Montreal and then in Toronto until Pat retired. While in Toronto, they bought a sailboat. He and Marie were avid sailors and sailed along the Atlantic coast of Canada and New England. Pat’s other hobbies were Scottish Country Dancing and playing cards.
In December of 1975, Patrick first contacted the International Community of Christ/Cosolargy International with a book order, then enrolled in The Academy in March of 1976 while living in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. They later moved to Toronto, Ontario. By June 1976, Patrick became a member of the Order of Monk de Jure of the Rectory-Abbey, and in March, 1979, he entered The Academy’s First Clergy Program, continuing through Liturgy III.
Patrick and Marie attended The Community’s annual Convocations in Reno each year for nearly 40 years. He received Level I Ordination in 1988 and Level II Ordination in 1994, after which he was given Special Assignment as Deacon-Overseer of the Sanctuary attached to the Church of Prophecy of the New Covenant at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary. In 2007, Patrick was ordained at Level III to Presbyter-Overseer of the Sanctuary.
In the summer of 1989, Patrick participated in an expedition into the jungles of Peru where he assisted Gene Savoy, Sr. and Gene Savoy, Jr. in exploring and documenting the expansive ancient city of Gran Vilaya, first discovered by Gene Savoy, Sr. four years earlier in 1985. He was awarded the “Participant’s Medal” for his work.
Patrick and Marie moved to Reno, Nevada from Rosedale Valley, Alberta in the spring of 1992 and resided in Reno for six months of the year until December of 1997.
Pat was a member of Ship’s Company beginning in 1976 and was soon to travel to Pascagoula, Mississippi to join the crew aboard the Feathered Serpent II, a Stay Sail Schooner of The Community, also referred to as The Ship of Light. On board, he served as Sailing Master and Engineer and helped to prepare the ship for its journey to the Hawaiian Islands.
In 1992, Patrick traveled to Cornwall, England with Gene Savoy, Sr. and Gene Savoy, Jr. to meet with James Wharram, a ship designer and builder. There they were able to secure the building plans for the construction of The Community’s third Ship of Light, the Feathered Serpent III-Ophir. Patrick, with Marie, spent nine months in Peru during 1997 overseeing the construction of the Feathered Serpent III.
Afterward, he and Marie returned to Rosedale Valley where they retired. Marie passed away in July 2013. We lost Patrick on June 20, 2023. They are missed.
His niece asked Bishop Savoy to provide a video that could be played at the service, and he did. Stephan Fuelling produced the video and RM Elizabeth Reece, RF Robert Petrovich, and RC Amanda Buchanan provided photos and other material.
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Saturday, July 22, 2023
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Lector: Rev. Noriko Roy
Cantor: Dea. Stephan Fuelling
Reader: Sonya Savoy
Sunday, July 30, 2023
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
New Pentecost Church
Leave: 4:45
Gate: 5:30
Sunrise: 6:03
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Ted Staver
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: RM Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Church of the Americas Rev. Gary Huss Jr.
Church of the New Covenant Dea. Radheka Savoy
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Second Advent Holiday
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Cathedral of the Americas
Leave: 4:45
Gate: 5:30
Sunrise: 6:03
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Ted Staver
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: RM Barbara Whitney
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy
Friday, August 4, 2023
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Dea. Radheka Savoy
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“The creation of life by the sun is as continuous as his light; nothing arrests or limits it. Around him, like an army of satellites, are innumerable choirs of genii. These dwell in the neighborhood of immortals, and thence, watch over human things. They fulfill the Will of God (Karma) by means of storms, tempests, transitions or fire, and earthquakes; likewise by famines and wars. It is the sun who preserves and nourishes all creatures; and even as the ideal world which environs the sensible world fills this last with the plenitude and universal variety of forms, so also the Sun, enfolding all in his light, accomplishes everywhere the birth and development of creatures. Every star has its genii, good and evil by nature, or rather by their operation, for operation is the essence of genii. All these genii preside over muindane affairs. They shake and overthrow the constitution of states and individuals; they imprint their likeness on our souls. At the moment when each of us receives [physical] life, he is taken in charge by the genii (Elementals) who preside over birth. … But the reasoning part of the Soul is not subjected to the genii.” ~H. P. Blavatsky
While it is true in a larger sense that life in the material world was created by the Demiurge, the false god, it is a hierarchal system and the energy that creates physical life on earth comes from the sun.
As for life within the sun, we believe that is true as did the ancients that Blavatsky is quoting. While they called them genii, we call them Beings of Light and Beings of Darkness.
I don’t generally think of Karma as “the Will of God,” but since it is a universal and inescapable law, I guess it is part of the Will of God. Where the quoted text does this law an injustice, though, is that it makes it seem like Karma is a purely negative thing, and a punishment for doing wrong. Neither of those ideas is true. Karma isn’t a punishment any more than any case of action and reaction, which is also a law of science. And there is just as much good karma as there is bad. Also, Karma is more common on the individual level than on the group level, and it is only at the group level that it can cause storms, earthquakes, and the other disasters mentioned.
There are beings in the sun, beings of higher dimensions. There are beings of the fourth dimension called demons or dark beings, and beings of the fifth dimension called Light Beings or Angels. When we practice Solar Techniques, we will, at times, contact such beings and they will influence us. That is why it is important to have the right attitude when we look at the sun. If we are angry or full of negative thoughts and emotions, we will be contacting the dark beings. If we are peaceful and loving, and approach the sun in humility, we will be contacting the Light Beings and the higher frequencies of Light and Consciousness. Doing so awakens our own dormant spiritual faculties and helps us raise our own level of consciousness.
Our sun is not the only star that is changing now, in the End Times. All Stars are changing. And all stars probably have living beings in them. But as the sun is far closer to us than any other star, we should concentrate on doing techniques with the Sun, and not try to do them at night on other stars.
Not only stars. But everything in the physical universe is changing and slowly moving back to its original form as spirit. We must change with it or be left behind.
A new map derived with the help of artificial intelligence reveals previously unknown “bridges” linking galaxies in the local universe. The bridges are in the form of filamentary structures. The scientists hope their map, published along with their paper in the Astrophysical Journal, can provide fresh insights into dark matter and the history of our universe.
While dark matter is an accepted notion, thought to make up 80 percent of all the matter in the universe, it has been hard to find. Scientists have, however, inferred much about the existence and behavior of dark matter by observing its gravitational influence on other space objects.
In a distant galaxy, a supermassive black hole spewing radiation at near light speed has shifted its angle by a whopping 90 degrees to point directly toward Earth — a sharp turn that’s puzzling physicists.
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the hungry black holes at the cores of many other galaxies, and they accrete matter and spew powerful jets of high-energy particles known as relativistic jets. AGN are classified according to what part of the AGN is pointed toward Earth.
Scientists stand ready to manipulate quantum light, just as Albert Einstein envisioned in 1916.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Basel successfully managed to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy. According to the team, this work represents an unprecedented landmark development for quantum technologies.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Lector: Rev. Mike McIntyre
Cantor: Dea. Radheka Savoy
Reader: Rev. Mary Foust
Sunday, July 23, 2023
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
New Pentecost Church
Leave: 4:45
Gate: 5:30
Sunrise: 5:57
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: RM Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of New Ephesus RM Elizabeth Reece
Church of New Qumran RM Barbara Whitney
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Dea. Radheka Savoy
Friday, July 27, 2023
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Dorothy Kubiak