New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called plasma. The images could provide heliophysicists with new clues to help unlock the secrets of the sun like never before.
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Link submitted by Gene Savoy, Jr.
If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon during totality.
It’s known as the corona, and it is the diffuse outer atmosphere of the Sun. Although it is so thin we’d consider it a vacuum on Earth, it has a temperature of millions of degrees, which is why it’s visible during a total eclipse.
HEAD OVERSEER’S WEEKLY MESSAGE
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
This past Saturday’s readings were from TheTestament of Levi (Chapter V) and, again, from The Second Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 35: On the Existence of Divine Reason (pp. 231 – 238). 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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Saturday, December 7, 2024
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: Rev. Harold Boulette
Cantor: RC Peter Foust
Reader: Claudia Grady
Sunday, December 8, 2024
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:45
Service Starts: 6:59
Sunrise: 7:14
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, December 11, 2024 – Convocation
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Noriko Roy
Friday, December 12, 2024
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RF Robert Petrovich
“The perfect majesty is at rest in the ineffable light, in the truth of the mother of all these, and all of you that attain to me, to me alone who am perfect, because of the word. For I exist with all the greatness of the spirit, which is a friend to us and our kindred alike. Since I brought forth a word to the glory of our father, through his goodness, as well as an imperishable thought, that is, the word within him, it is slavery that we should die with Christ, with imperishable and undefiled thought. This is an incomprehensible marvel, the writing of the ineffable water, which is the word from us: I am in you and you are in me, just as the father is in you in innocence.
“Let us gather an assembly together. Let us visit that creation of his. Let us send someone forth in it, so that he may visit the thoughts in the regions below. And I said these things to the whole multitude of the great assembly of the rejoicing majesty. The whole house of the father of truth rejoiced that I am the one who is from them. I reflected upon the thoughts that came out of the undefiled spirit about the descent upon the water, that is, the regions below. And they all had a single mind, since it is from one source. They ordered me, and because I was willing, I came forth to reveal the glory to my kindred and my fellow spirits. For those who were in the world had been prepared by the will of our sister Sophia because of her innocence that has not been uttered. And she did not ask anything from the realm of all, nor from the greatness of the assembly, nor from the pleroma, when she previously came forth to prepare lodgings and places for the son of light and the fellow workers. She took materials from the elements below to build bodily dwellings from them. But having come into being in an empty glory, they ended in destruction in the dwellings in which they were. Since they were prepared by Sophia, they stand ready to receive the life-giving word of the ineffable One and the greatness of the assembly of all those who persevere and those who are in me. I visited a bodily dwelling. I cast out the one who was in it first, and I went in. And the whole multitude of the rulers became troubled. And all the matter of the rulers as well as all the powers born of the earth were shaken when they saw the likeness of the image, since it was mixed. And I was the one who was in the image, not resembling him who was in the body first. For he was an earthly man, but I, I am from above the heavens. I did not refuse them even to become Christ, but I did not reveal myself to them in the love that was coming forth from me. I revealed that I am a stranger to the regions below.
“There was a great disturbance in the whole earthly area, with confusion and flight, as well as in the plan of the rulers. And some were persuaded, when they saw the wonders that were being accomplished by me. And all those fled, those of the race that descended from the one who fled from the throne to the Sophia of hope, since she had earlier given”
-The Second Treatise of the Great Shem
The Perfect Majesty is God. It might be said that God is “at rest in the ineffable light.” but it is more accurate to say that God is the Light. Shem is saying that he exists within the Light of God and he is perfect because of “The Word.” Shem is apparently a Christ. It may be a reference to Jesus or to some other angelic being who came to Earth as a Christ.
Shem says Spirit is “a friend to us and our kindred,” which is saying that spirit is a friend to all. You might say that Spirit cannot be a friend to murderers, despots, etc. but it is. Spirit is a friend to all because it offers all an opportunity for eternal life in the Spiritual World. Of course, those who do abhorrent things such as murder will not be able to go to Heaven, but that doesn’t change the fact that Spirit is a friend to all.
The Angels of God all think alike since they all serve God. In a sense, they are all a part of God, so they are all of a single mind which is the mind of God.
Shem says “Let us gather an assembly together.” Some people who consider themselves spiritual disagree with that. They thing we should all develop our spiritual Self alone. While to some degree, they are correct, there is also much that can be gained by being part of a group and developing with the group. One benefit is that the members help guide each other as they develop. Another is that they can protect each other from the forces of Darkness.
This part of the quote seems confusing because we generally read of Sophia (Wisdom) as a good thing, but here Shem is associating her with something that isn’t so good. He had Sophia creating material dwelling places for those who have fallen to the realm of Matter. But Shem says those dwellings were destroyed because they had no Glory in them. I think he is telling us that the things of matter are not important, and while we need them while we are in a physical body, we should avoid getting too attached to them.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an instance of two galaxies aligned in a way where their gravity acts as a compound lens. The group has written a paper describing the findings and posted it on the arXiv preprint server.
Prior research has led to many findings of galaxies, or clusters of them, bending light in ways that were predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Astronomers have noted that some of them work as imperfect lenses, distorting the light behind them in interesting ways.
An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—nearly as massive as the Milky Way—already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang.
This surprising discovery was made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope’s FRESCO program, which uses the NIRCam/grism spectrograph to measure accurate distances and stellar masses of galaxies. The results indicate that the formation of stars in the early universe was far more efficient than previously thought, challenging existing galaxy formation models.
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In March 2021, astronomers observed a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy. Assigned the name AT 2021hdr, it was thought to be a supernova.
However, there were enough interesting features that flagged as potentially interesting by the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE).
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Saturday, November 30, 2024
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Lector: Rm Rebecca Willis
Cantor: Dea. Stephan Fuelling
Reader: Rev. Mary Foust
Sunday, December 1, 2024
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of the New Epiphany
Leave: 5:45
Gate: 6:30
Service Starts: 6:52
Sunrise: 7:07
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of the Golden Age of Light: RM Elizabeth Reece
Church of the Universal Theocracy: RM Barbara Whitney
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 – Convocation
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of the Holy Child
Rev. Radheka Savoy
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
RM Elizabeth Reece
