The most energetic light ever seen emanating from the Sun has just been detected, creating a new puzzle for solar physicists to solve.
A 6-year observing campaign by more than 30 institutions across North America, Europe, and Asia has resulted in the first ever detection of solar gamma radiation in the teraelectronvolt (TeV) range.
It isn’t just your refrigerator that has magnets on it. The earth, the stars, galaxies, and the space between galaxies are all magnetized, too. The more places scientists have looked for magnetic fields across the universe, the more they’ve found them. But the question of why that is the case and where those magnetic fields originate from has remained a mystery and a subject of ongoing scientific inquiry.
The first time I watched “Raiders of the Lost Ark” as a kid, it inspired me to explore the little forest behind my house.
Armed with a walking stick and a shovel in my best impersonation of Indiana Jones, I maneuvered through thick clusters of trees, my feet slipping on the waxy leaves from a massive magnolia.
I scanned the ground, thinking any minute I would spy some rock sticking up that had been used to build a long-forgotten city that held buried treasure.
When no discovery emerged, I remember thinking there must be a more efficient way to investigate the past.
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Saturday, January 27, 2024
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
Suspended due to the Second Advent Vigil
Sunday, February 4, 2024
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:50
Service Starts: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:08
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: RM Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of The Universal Theocracy Rev. Larry Coesens
Church of The Golden Age of Light Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
January 30th – February 5th, 2024
Appearance of the Comforter
Church of New Epiphany
Times same as Sunday
February 6th, 2024
Second Advent Vigil
Church of New Epiphany
Times same as Sunday
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child,
Rev. Noriko Roy
Friday, February 9, 2024
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Rev. Dorothy Kubiak
“When the false theologies disappear, then true prehistoric realities will be found, contained especially in the mythology of the Aryans – ancient Hindoos, and even the pre-Homeric Hellenes. One writer on mythology asserts that the Egyptians imagined a cat behind the sun, which is the pupil of the cat’s eye. But this imagining is all modern. It is the Mullerite stock in trade. The moon as cat was the eye of the sun, because it reflected the solar light, and because the eye gives back image in its mirror. In the form of the goddess Pasht, the cat keeps watch for the sun, with her paw holding down and bruising the head of the serpent of darkness, called the eternal enemy. …
The untiring research of Western, and especially German, symbologists, during the last and the present centuries, have brought every occultist and most unprejudiced person to see that without the help of symbology (with its seven departments, of which the moderns knew nothing) no ancient scripture can ever be correctly understood. Symbology must be studied from every one of its aspects, for each nation has its own peculiar method of expression. In short, no Egyptian papyrus, no Indian tolla, no Assyrian tile, or Hebrew scroll, should be read and accepted literally.”
The theologies practiced in most religions and churches today are far different than what was intended by the founders of those faiths. Partly, this is because certain people—usually politicians—have changed what they say, but also because the symbolic language of the original writers is misunderstood. We might understand the symbols used in recent writings, but those of ancient times are little understood except by the students of a few spiritual schools.
When we read the writings of ancient Egypt, we think that cats were worshipped by them, but that may not be true. The images of cats as gods and goddesses, such as the one illustrating this post showing the goddess Pasht with the head of a cat, are symbolic. I don’t know the spiritual significance of the cat symbol, but I do know some of the others from ancient Egypt.
One famous work of Egyptian art shows the sun shining down on ancient Egyptian royals with the rays of the sun ending in hands. This is an obvious symbolic way of saying the sun lends a helping hand to man, but there is more to it than that. This well-known image is actually symbolic of the Light of the Spiritual Sun lending a hand to awaken the dormant spiritual faculties in Man.
We know that it is well-accepted today that the Egyptian Ankh is a symbol of eternal life, but it is not understood that it symbolizes a sun with a cross under it, so another symbol of the Spiritual Sun.
Another important symbol was the solar boat. It is said that Ra, the Sun god, road this boat to carry the sun across the sky. It is also said that this boat carries the human soul to the afterlife, again relating the Spiritual Sun to eternal life. An interesting recent discovery is that there was originally a moat around the Sphinx of Egypt with a solar boat in it, relating that monument to the Spiritual Sun.
One Greek symbol that is well known is the Rod of Asclepius, which is a rod with a snake wrapped around it. This was a symbol of healing, both physical and spiritual. Alpha and Omega is another Greek symbol that has significant meaning. In the Greek alphabet, Alpha is the first letter, and Omega is the last letter, so It is like saying “everything from A to Z”. In the Book of Revelation, Alpha and Omega is used as a symbol of God, as God is the creator of all. The Minotaur, a creature half man and half bull is imprisoned in the Labyrinth. This represents a person who has become completely materialistic, and so is lost in the labyrinth of the realm of matter.
The most important symbol in Christianity is the Cross. The early Christians knew the cross with four equal-length arms to be a symbol of God, which was true even before Christianity. Later, Christians changed it to the Crucifix as a symbol of Jesus and his death. Another is a fish which represents Jesus or Christ. Bread and wine is said to symbolize the body and blood of Jesus, but on a deeper, more spiritual level, it represents the Spiritual Light that awakens and nourishes the Spirit.
Just about 32 light-years from our solar system (which is incredibly close, cosmically speaking) an angry red dwarf star named AU Microscopii is absolutely tormenting one of its very own planets, AU Microscopii b. Piece by piece, the stellar beast seems to be eviscerating the world’s atmosphere with its high-energy radiation. It’s quite chaotic over there, to say the least.
A stellar new image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is offering up some clues about how planets as enormous as the gas giant Jupiter could form. Researchers used the ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and an international astronomy facility called Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to detect large dusty clumps located close to a young star. The clumps may collapse and one day create planets. The findings were published July 25 in the The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Our picture of cosmic evolution could be thrown into doubt by the discovery of a massive galaxy that seems to lack dark matter.
Dark matter, which accounts for around 85% of the matter in the universe, seems to be absent from the galaxy NGC 1277, part of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. The galaxy, located 240 million light-years from Earth, is the first Milky Way-sized conglomeration of stars, planets, dust and gas found to be missing dark matter.
Saturday, January 27, 2024
10:00 AM COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Lector: Rev. Harold Boulette
Cantor: Rev. Larry Coesens
Reader: Claudia Grady
Sunday, January 28, 2024
SUNRISE DIVINE SERVICE
Church of New Epiphany
Leave: 6:00
Gate: 6:50
Service Starts: 7:00
Sunrise: 7:10
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
Concelebrants:
RF Robert Petrovich
Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer
Assistant: RM Barbara Whitney
OPEN-AIR COMMUNION
Church of The End Times RM Elizabeth Reece
Church of The Christian Churches RM Barbara Whitney
Church of The Races of Man RC Amanda Buchanan
Monday, January 29th, 2024
6:00 PM Remembrance of the Child Service
Chapel of The Holy Child,
RRF Gene Savoy, Jr.
January 30th – February 6th, 2024
Second Advent vigil
Church of New Epiphany
Times same as Sunday
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
12:00 NOON COMMUNION
Chapel of The Holy Child,
Rev. Harold Boulette, Jr.
Friday, February 2, 2024
9:00 AM PRAYER & FELLOWSHIP
Chapel of the Roses
Suspended due to sunrise vigil
DECEMBER 2023
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
9
The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
13
The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
Karen Tuschen
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
Karen Tuschen
Victor Kauffman
20
The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
Tomizou Sonoda
Akiko Sonoda
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
Tomizou Sonoda
Akiko Sonoda
Ryuich Saitou
Betty Reichardt †
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The People of Ukraine
Prayer for Peace in Eastern Europe
The People of Israel and Palestine
Prayer for Peace in the Middle East
Robert Loveall
Edward Elliott †
† indicates Memorial Prayer