Astronomers know that supermassive black holes (SMBH) can inhibit star formation. These behemoths, which seem to be present in the center of large galaxies like ours, inject energy into their surroundings, heating up star-forming gas. Gas needs to be cool to collapse and form stars, so active SMBH put a damper on the process.
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The early Universe was a dramatically different environment than what we have today. The first stars formed from the primordial hydrogen and helium left over from the Big Bang and could have grown to immense sizes, living short lives and detonating as supernovae. In a new paper, researchers looked at what could have happened when stars with more than 1,000 times the mass of the Sun could form, and the impact they’d have had on their surroundings.
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Our current models of the Universe assume that large galaxy clusters were built up slowly over time, piece by piece from individual galaxies bound together by gravity. They should take billions of years to come together, but a new observation from JWST and Chandra found a galaxy cluster that was already assembled just a billion years after the Big Bang. At this relatively young age it had already assembled 20 trillion times the mass of the Sun.
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“My land, what have you become? You have left the true path of your faith and wandered into strange byways. You are bemused and bedazzled with things that disturb the senses, and have become like a ship adrift without oars. You have abandoned the spirit that inspired you and sought satisfaction among lifeless things of Earth. You have spurned the stern discipline required to win the hand of love and trodden the well-worn path of carnal satisfaction. You have turned to the ways of the harlot, and out of your harlotry, you have wrought destruction. You no longer delight in the serene mystery of the stars above; your pleasures are in the filth beneath your feet. Where once you gazed upward in awe, now you look downward in degradation. O that this is the self-chosen fate of my land!
“I go, for go I must. I depart, for destiny demands it. When his motherland collapses about him like an undermined palace built on a foundation of mud, then it is not a time for hesitation. One man cannot stem a flood with his hand. When his habitation falls apart, it is time to seek another. Perhaps nations, like men, grow old and decay. My land is old, a hundred and twenty generations have passed through it since Osireh brought light to men. Four times, the stars have moved to new positions, and twice the sun has changed the direction of his journey. Twice, the Destroyer has struck Earth and three times the Heavens have opened and shut. Twice, the land has been swept clean by water.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:33:4-5)
We know that this part of the Kolbrin Bible was written by Egyptian priests, so the land that has left the true path is Egypt. Leaving the true path is not something that happens overnight, but gradually over a period of time. To some degree, people can only blame themselves for wandering into what the quote calls “strange byways,” but we also have to understand that the dark forces and beings help lead people astray, and that can’t be ignored. Some people wonder why God created evil and darkness, or why he allows it to exist. You can’t have free choice if there is only one thing to choose from. God has to allow the dark ones to control us to some degree in the physical realm so that we can turn from darkness and choose Light.
I don’t think it is accurate to say that people are “bemused and bedazzled with things that disturb the senses”. It is actually things that bring pleasure to the senses that we are attracted to. It is accurate to say that in most cases, such people are like ships adrift without oars that are “blown by the wind” in random directions as they seek more and more gratification for the physical senses, ignoring their spirits in the process.
The mystery of the stars is really a reference to the Spiritual Sun. When people become materialistic, they do turn away from the Sun and look downward to the material things of lower dimensions.
The author realizes that to stay in the fallen land of Egypt is not wise, since there is no way a small number of people can bring it back to it’s former spiritual greatness. As he says, it is possible that nations, like people, grow old and decay. Egypt was a very old civilization, and that might be what happened there. This may be similar to what happened to the once great civilization of Atlantis. From a materialistic viewpoint, it may have been a war or a plague that destroyed Atlantis (it did not sink into the sea), but this may have happened because their great spiritual civilization had descended into materialism and was no longer protected by God.
I always say that one of the things that separates real science from pseudoscience is that while in both you’re allowed to say whatever crazy idea pops into your mind, in real science, you’re obligated to take that idea seriously.
You can imagine a late evening. You’re hanging out with friends. Spitballing some wild ideas. Maybe there are some illicit substances involved. Maybe all you need is a good wine and cheese pairing. And then you get a wild idea, and you feel bold enough to share it with the group: “Hey, everybody, listen. What if the universe had more dimensions?”
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I always say that one of the things that separates real science from pseudoscience is that while in both you’re allowed to say whatever crazy idea pops into your mind, in real science, you’re obligated to take that idea seriously.
You can imagine a late evening. You’re hanging out with friends. Spitballing some wild ideas. Maybe there are some illicit substances involved. Maybe all you need is a good wine and cheese pairing. And then you get a wild idea, and you feel bold enough to share it with the group: “Hey, everybody, listen. What if the universe had more dimensions?”
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“O great city, O heart of Egypt, your habitations are overthrown and your sacred shrines lie buried beneath the sands of time. The dust of ages enwraps you, as a dead one is swathed within the tomb. Your temples still stand and ring with noise, but the solemn shrines are silent. They have become an abode for the wild dog and scorpion, and your roads are highways of wickedness.
“Behold, in the days long gone down into dust, the whirlwind came and earth poured out her wrathful breath, so that you were burnt. The evildoers were swept away by the waters, and the wicked ones were
swallowed up in the fires. The days of the years were shortened and the times of all things altered. The seasons were turned around, so that the seed rotted within the soil, and no green shoots came forth to greet the day. All buds withered upon the vines, the land lay dead under its grey shroud. The moon
changed the order of her ways, and the sun set himself a new course, so that men knew not where they were and all were afflicted. The stars swam in a new direction, and the whole order of things was changed. Yet, O Egypt, even from those days of calamity you emerged unbroken, your spirit intact,
your heart unshaken. What has happened to you, O land of mine?”
-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:33:1-2)
It is unclear from this part of the Kolbrin Bible how habitations were overthrown, but it seems more likely that this is talking about a natural disaster rather than a war. Shrines lie buries because the great spiritual schools were shut down, probably by a corrupt, materialistic government. The writers of this part of the Kolbrin Bible are known to be Egyptian priests, but they may have written it while in another land, probably Greece.
The author is separating temples from shrines. Temples are probably the places approved by the corrupt government and attended by the general population who are not spiritual. Shrines are the ancient mystery schools that taught spiritual truth to a select few who were ready for such knowledge and would use it wisely.
This paragraph describes a great disaster. Besides whirlwinds, it says that wicked ones were “swallowed up in the fires”. It is unlikely that fires were able to distinguish evil people from good, but the author seems to be assuming only evil people still exist in Egypt. The additional information that follows tells us a lot more about exactly what kind of disaster we are talking about. We are told that the seasons were shortened and the seasons changed so that seeds rotted in the ground and buds withered on the vine. The movements of the moon and the sun changed, and stars moved in new directions.
There is only a few possible things that could have caused such changes:
Since the quote doesn’t mention a strange body approaching Earth, it is most likely that it was the Earth flipping over. Science tells us that this happened only once, and that millions of years ago, but the records of ancient civilizations indicate otherwise.
The quote ends with a positive note. We are told that despite this great calamity, Egypt survived. Its population was probably greatly reduced, yet it survived. I think the reason the author added this positive statement is to remind all who read the quote that even in the greatest disasters, there is hope for the future.
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Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, orderly disc, yet it had largely stopped making new stars. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers now say they have one of the clearest early-universe examples of a “dead” galaxy, and a new clue about how galaxies can fade without a violent crash.
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