Don’t let the name fool you. Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in the cosmos.
That doesn’t mean all are detectable. An analysis of galaxies surveyed by a large international consortium of researchers suggests the glow surrounding a third of all supermassive black holes might be hidden by a thick pall of dust and gas.
The galaxy formerly known as LEDA 1313424 – now nicknamed the Bullseye – is a monster. It’s 2 1/2 times larger than our home galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of researchers said on February 4, 2025, that they discovered nine rings around this galaxy – the most yet observed for any galaxy – and that the rings are the result of a collision with a smaller galaxy.
Saturday, February 15, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: RF Ted Staver
Cantor: RC Rob Roy
Reader: Rev. Mary Foust
Sunday, February 16, 2025
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:30
Service Starts: 6:42
Sunrise: 6:57
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Races of Man: Rev. Radheka Savoy
Church of the Americas: Rev. Gary Huss, Jr.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
RF Ted Staver
Friday, February 21, 2025, 9:00 am
Chapel of the Roses, Steamboat Priory
Rev. Michael McIntyre
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
This past Saturday’s readings were from the prophet Malachi (Chapters 3 and 4) and the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals (pp. 968 – 970). 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.
In Light+,
Gene
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“Western civilization and religions are based on the belief that God, or gods, are external, anthropomorphic beings. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans had pantheons full of them. The Jews had Yahweh. Baal was a god worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially that of the Canaanites. There were thought to be many other deities in the ancient Western world, and so when Jesus of Nazareth came along, the idea was taken for granted that God or gods existed outside of human beings and the physical universe. But, as will be explained, that is apparently not what Jesus believed or taught. I think it is safe to say that his teachings were misunderstood because of the cultural conditioning of the age in which he lived. Today, however, a major revolution in our understanding of the universe is occurring, and that is that consciousness, mind, and intelligence do not exist outside of or separate from creation. They are within, or immanent—if you prefer that terminology—and form the ground of being of all that is. John Samuel Hagelin, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a Ph.D. from Harvard in Quantum Physics, has elaborated on such a theory, comparing the unified field, which many scientists believe is what existed before the Big Bang, to the field of pure consciousness known as “Veda,” a Sanskrit word meaning “to know” or “knowledge,” which is described in the ancient religious texts of India called the Vedas.
-Stephen Hawley Martin
We humans do have a tendency to think of God as being anthropomorphic, which is to say, very much like us. We take the statement that God created us “in His image” the wrong way. It doesn’t mean we look like God, at least on the physical level, it means that God created us by forming an image in His mind. Whenever He does that, the thing becomes real.
Another thing we do is turn the messengers of God into God. We do it with Jesus, Buddha, and other messengers or messiahs who very often stated quite clearly that they were messengers of God, not God Himself.
Actually, God does exist outside of the physical universe, but to a degree, also exists in the physical universe. Even though the physical universe was created by the Demiurge, the false god, it was created from the original universe of spirit, so it still has some spirit in it, and therefore, has God in it. We need to stop thinking of God as a being in the same sense as a human or a dog or a bear. God is not a being, but all beings together.
There is a major revolution going on with the understanding of consciousness. Something that most believed was something generated by the physical brain is now understood to exist without the brain, while the brain serves like an antenna or radio receiver to receive information from consciousness. As the quote says, some scientists are now relating consciousness to the unified field believed to have existed before the “big bang” that created the physical universe. This tells us that not only does consciousness exist outside of the brain, it existed long before the brain did. So more accurately, God is all Consciousness, all Truth, all Knowledge.
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft launched in 2013 and spent more than a decade measuring and mapping our home galaxy, the Milky Way. And ESA said last week (January 15, 2025) that Gaia has now ended its operations. It has taken its final measurements of our galaxy. So Gaia is no longer in a data-gathering mode. But loads of Gaia data remain to be analyzed, and scientists expect to find more mind-bending insights from Gaia about our galaxy and its immediate environment. For now, scientists have released a short animation giving a quick overview of a few of the new insights Gaia helped make possible. Gaia data was used to put together this animation of our galaxy.
As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate.
But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or rupture – and now, using JWST, astronomers have recorded it doing something we’ve never seen before.
On 6 April 2024, the black hole let out a flare observed in mid-infrared wavelengths, followed by a radio flare counterpart.
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| Sabrina and Sophia Savoy light the candles of remembrance at the Remembrance of The Child Service. |
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| Youths and children of The Community sing “Say Unto Them” at the Remembrance of The Child Service. |
Remembrance of the Child Service
The annual Remembrance of The Child Service was held on Wednesday, January 29th at 6:00 PM in the Chapel of the Holy Child. The service commemorates the passing of The Holy Child, Jamil at midnight (January 29/30) in 1962. This service officially begins the Second Advent Sunrise Vigil which, this year, marks the 63rd year of the birth of the Sun of Righteousness and God’s Second Advent. Sunrise Divine Service is held each morning at the Church of New Epiphany at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary each morning, weather permitting. On mornings when Sunrise Divine Service is not permitted due to inclement weather, Community Sunrise is held at the End Times parsonage.
During this year’s sunrise vigil, several spectacular rainbows were observed over the Sanctuary and the entire city of Reno which even caught the attention of local news stations.
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| Sunrise on February 3rd, 2025 |
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| Rainbow over Reno on February 4, 2025
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Saturday, February 8, 2025
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: Rev. Noriko Roy
Cantor: Rev. Radheka Savoy
Reader: Rev. Harold Boulette
Sunday, February 9, 2025
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:40
Service Starts: 6:52
Sunrise: 7:07
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Americas: Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Church of the Universal Theocracy: Rev. Larry Coesens
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Noon
Chapel of the Holy Child
RC Peter Foust
Friday, February 14, 2025, 9:00 am
Chapel of the Roses, Steamboat Priory
RF Ted Staver
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Second Advent Vigil
This past Saturday’s readings were again from the prophet Isaiah and the Prophecy of the New Covenant, Chapter 90: Prophecy on the Revelation and the Opening of the Seals (pp. 964 – 967). 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.
In Light+,
Gene
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