A distant stellar explosion has offered astronomers a rare natural experiment, one that turns gravity into a powerful optical tool. The object, known as SN 2025wny, appears not once but four times in the sky, its light split and magnified by a massive foreground galaxy. The result resembles a cosmic hall of mirrors and provides a new way to study how the universe expands.
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A classical nova may look simple at first. A faint star brightens, sometimes enough for you to spot without a telescope, then slowly dims over weeks or months. Behind that short burst of light sits a white dwarf in a tight orbit with a partner star. The white dwarf pulls in hydrogen from its neighbor until a runaway nuclear reaction ignites. The outer layer swells, and the system releases a wave of energy that should blow gas into space.
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Saturday, January 10, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: Rev. Harold Boulette
Cantor: Rev. Greg Klinedinst
Reader: Sophia Savoy
Sunday, January 11, 2026
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
The Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:10
Gate: 6:50
Service Starts: 7:09
Sunrise: 7:24
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney
Second Services
RM Barbara Whitney and RM Elizabeth Reece
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy
Friday, January 16, 2026, 9:00 AM
The Chapel of the Roses
RC Robert Roy
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Epiphany Day
This past Saturday’s readings were from the Odes of Solomon (Ode 8) and the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 89: God’s Appearance at Epiphany (pp. 901 – 914). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.
Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service. I wish you a blessed Epiphany.
In Light+,
Gene
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DECEMBER 2025
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Bishop Shawn Smith
Annie Smith
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Rev. Steve Larson
Joann Larson
Tim zu Solms †
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Anne Ferrentino
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Anne Ferrentino
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Paul Young
Robert Etnyre
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
Paul Young
Robert Etnyre
Cheryl Shafer
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The People of the Middle East
Prayer for Peace
† indicates Memorial Prayer
“Now I make ready to go downstream to the Abode of Light, that wisdom and Truth may be carried to the appointed place under the everlasting stars and there made secure to men in generations yet to grow up in the Light. They will be seen in generations to come.
“I shall go on the Wings of the Sun before the retinue of the Breaker of Heads. I am one acknowledged as being pure of hands and shall be with those who serve under the head of The Great One.
“My name, henceforth, shall be Hemnetar, and I shall not eat of fish or beans until I come to the place appointed to fit my station. I shall wear linen, and my sandals shall be made of grass, so that none shall perceive my greatness. I will hide great things within my heart, and a bridle will ever hold my tongue in check.
“I shall pray among the empty-hearted, but my prayers will not be as theirs but as those offered in the days of our fathers, who sat enfolded in silence two hours beforehand. Now, the marks are changed by the hypocrisy of men.
“With me shall go Methemun, my brother, but Nifanethrith shall remain and provide for our father in faith. We shall be with he, whom men call Nonpeka for his foolishness in his father’s abode. Kenamun shall be with us as chief overseer.
“Behind us, we leave many in sorrow, but our stature shall not diminish, for greater things are always believed of those who are distant.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:29:12-17)
It is not clear where this person is when he says he will go downstream to the Abode of Light. In the previous section of this chapter, however, we saw that they headed north from Egypt, probably to Greece. We can assume, therefore, that he is now in Greece, and when he heads downstream to the Abode of Light, he is either talking about a place where a new mystery school has been established or a place that is considered holy by the people in the area. He adds that he goes there so that Wisdom and Truth may be carried to the “appointed place,” which we can assume is the same place he called the Abode of Light. A winged Sun was a common symbol in ancient Egypt for the Spiritual Sun.
The author says that he will dress like a poor person to hide his “greatness”. He adds that he will hide great things within his heart. As most of us already know, the teachers of ancient Mystery Schools kept the teachings secret from the general public and taught them to students only a little at a time so as not to overwhelm them.
The empty-hearted are those who have made no effort to awaken and develop their spiritual faculties. The prayers of the spiritual person are different than those of materialists. Materialists will pray to ask for material wealth of one sort or another. The farmer might pray for successful crops. The carpenter for finding good quality wood. The spiritual person prays for the development of his spirit and soul, and for the world to become a world of Light, as God intended it to be.
Even today, people who take the path of spiritual development may find themselves being estranged from friends and family, even without relocating to a new place. Unfortunately, this is often necessary since it is unusual for several members of the same family to be among The Chosen. But we can take solace in knowing that as we advance and help others to do the same, those who are not ready now will become ready at a later time.
A year ago tomorrow, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun. And the images it captured have now revealed new details about how magnetic fields responsible for space weather escape from the sun … and how sometimes they don’t.
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Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing like a loose dusting. On its largest stretches, matter forms a vast web. Thick clusters rise where threads meet. Long filaments bind them together. Immense voids lie between, empty as oceans without water.
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From your place inside the Milky Way, you are living within a galaxy that keeps a detailed chemical diary. Every star holds clues about when it formed and what the galaxy was like at the time. Over the past decade, data from the Gaia space telescope and massive sky surveys have given astronomers an unusually sharp view of those records. With millions of stars tracked for motion, age and composition, a strange pattern has stood out: the stars in the Milky Way’s disc do not follow one smooth chemical trend.
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New Year’s Eve
This past Saturday’s readings were from the Essene Gospel of Peace (The Sevenfold Peace) and the First Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 15: On the New Sun (pp. 128 – 130). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.
Once again, please feel free to ask me any questions by calling 775-786-7432 or emailing me at messages@cosolargy.org. I am always at your service. Happy New Year!
In Light+,
Gene
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