Rigel is one of several brilliant stars that grace our night sky this time of the year. It’s also the brightest star in one of the most beloved of constellations, Orion the Hunter. Rigel appears blue-white to the eye. It’s a stunning contrast to red Betelgeuse, Orion’s second-brightest star. Classified as a blue supergiant, Rigel is in the latter stages of its stellar lifetime and will someday explode as a supernova. Hidden in Rigel’s brilliance are at least three other fainter companion stars that can only be detected using large telescopes.

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“To Ohsirahes from your servant, Panubis; may The One God grant you long life and contentment. May Nebetnif be your everlasting joy. May strife ever depart before your shadow.

“Your servant writes with difficulty, for his heart has become small within him, and few are those whom he can entrust with tasks of importance. In considering the events occurring in the land, few are the words of assurance that can be written. Things do not get any better; from year to year they get worse.

“The secret writings remain with us, but they are lightly regarded by those who should cherish them. Few still walk in their light, and in all the land the right way of life is avoided. The path of righteousness is spurned; it is beyond the strength of men today. Here, at its heart, the land is

distressed. Better by far to dwell at the edge of the pool, where none but the strongest ripples reach, and they as no more than a slight disturbance.

“Men cry aloud with sorrowful hearts, for their lives are turned over. No longer are their institutions respected, and like wild dogs, man seeks to snatch the sustenance of man. Contentment and trust have departed; peace has gone, and hope is no more. Mornings come and men rise to greet them with anticipation of change, but this passes with the early mists and the sun goes down on despondency and despair. Your servant is heavy-laden with care; he is burdened with sorrow but adjusts his life to the times. Better by far would it be if he were many days journey away.

-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:30:1-4)

May Strife Depart Before You

This is a great thing to say to anyone. We should not wish for strife or difficulties for anyone, even those who have earned it by their deeds, because if we wish such things on others, we are becoming hateful people ourselves. Instead, we should want that such people have a revelation and awaken to the truth.

Few Can Be Trusted

It is true now, and always has been, that few can be trusted with the truth. Not just basic truths about the world around us, but the Truth about God, and the power that resides in that truth. Those who have learned that Truth are always very careful about who they share it with. We are now living in a time where we see much darkness around us, and it will likely get worse before it gets better, so it is especially important not to give Divine Knowledge to those who would use it for evil.

The Secrets are Lightly Regarded

We see this today, especially in the United States, where being “woke” is considered evil and the government turns against anyone who is considered woke, even though many of those they considered woke are not really awakened in the spiritual sense. It is strange to consider that if these people are opposed to being awake, that means they prefer to be asleep and trapped in a kind of hypnotic trance where they are controlled by evil beings and forces.

Dwell at the Edge of the Pool

This line is allegorical. It means that we should try to dwell as far away from the centers of evil and darkness as possible. When that isn’t possible, we should at least visit such places regularly. Our sanctuary in Reno is well away from heavily populated areas for that reason.

Adjust to the Times

There was a time when holy people were respected and had little to fear from the general public. There have always been evil people around, but not like today. So to some degree, we need to adjust to the times by tolerating things that we shouldn’t accept and taking jobs that are not really good for people. In short, we may need to hide our spiritual nature to avoid persecution by the Dark Ones. But we should also continue to make every effort to bring more Light into the world to push away the darkness.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led by Dr. Vivian Tan, who completed her doctorate at York University under the supervision of Prof. Adam Muzzin, offers the most detailed picture yet of how our galaxy may have grown from a chaotic youth into a stable spiral. Working with an international team, Tan traced the Milky Way’s past by studying hundreds of galaxies that resemble it at earlier stages of cosmic history.

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• Rogue planets, or free-floating planets, are planets that don’t orbit stars. Instead, they drift alone through space.
• Astronomers have found a new rogue planet, using instruments both on Earth and in space at the same time. This is the first such detection of its kind, and the first confirmed mass of a rogue planet.
• The planet has a mass similar to Saturn and is located about 9,800 light-years from us, toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

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In July 2025, astronomers announced they’d detected a companion star orbiting the red supergiant Betelgeuse. And now, researchers have tracked the influence of this recently discovered star – known as Siwarha – on the gas around Betelgeuse.

By tracking changes in Betelgeuse’s light over nearly 8 years of observations, the scientists have revealed a trail of dense gas left by Siwarha as it plows through Betelgeuse’s vast outer atmosphere.

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“May you ever seek the unknown and strive courageously against the unseen. May your spirit be high on the journey in this place, where so many men grow weary on the road. Be not one who sits following the ways of other men, but one who moves along a path of his own choosing.

“Keep the love of life given men, or life is lost, but cast aside the fear of death, for it is a small payment for a life well lived. Rejoice in living, and walk in the sun, avoiding the shadows. Remember that though life is to be enjoyed to the full, its enjoyment is ever subordinate to duty.

“Be a man, my son. Be not a man of unbridled wrath, for such are rarely without trouble, though righteous wrath will lend strength to your arm. Be a man above pettiness and greed, above meanness and deceit.

“Keep forever the joys of friendships well made, and serve your friends well. Never betray friendship or turn it to serve your own ends, lest you become something less than a man. Carry high gladness in your heart, and never cease to wonder at the marvels in life. Not a day shall pass, but you will see something new to enrich your thoughts. Look at life as a man and not as an ox. Wonder at the great and awesome manifestations of God, such as sunlight and thunder, the dew and the stars, the sandstorm and the murmur of waters. Never let your eyes become dulled to the growth of trees, to the rising of the waters and to the return of the harvests.

-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:29:24-27)

Strive Courageously

Telling us to strive courageously against the unseen means that we must work against the unseen forces and beings of darkness and not allow them to control us or turn us away from the path of righteousness. When the quote says “may your spirit be high,” it means high in the sense of moving into higher dimensions or higher levels of consciousness.

Be One Who Moves

When we decide to start developing our spiritual Self, we are not all starting at the same point, and we do not all move at the same speed. That doesn’t matter. We all have to proceed at our own speed. The important thing is that we keep moving forward.

Love of Life

We should all love life, and that means physical life as well as spiritual. It also means loving the lives of other beings, not only humans. Highly developed spiritual people are always friendly with animals and all living things. They understand that even though the physical realm is the creation of the Demiurge, all life comes from God.

Unbridled Wrath

We are seeing much of this today. Some people think that they can be angry and violent, and even believe they are being good Christians by being such. But Jesus never taught that, and spiritual people know that being angry and violent only attracts anger and violence to yourself.

Keep Friendships

We all benefit from having friends. That applies only to actual friends, not the kind that many people have on social media, where they have thousands of “friends,” most of whom they have never actually met. Spiritual people usually don’t have many friends, but the ones they have are true friends. They honor those friends by doing what they can to help them, especially by helping them to awaken and develop their spiritual faculties.

Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered evidence that galaxy mergers matter. When two galaxies move close, gravity can pull gas toward their centers. That gas can spark new stars and feed a supermassive black hole, switching it on as an active galactic nucleus, or AGN. Still, researchers have debated how strong this link truly is.

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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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“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)

Downstream to the Abode of Light

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.

I Will Hide Great Things

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.

Pray Among the Empty Hearted

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.

We Leave Many in Sorrow

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.