After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a corner of the Universe.
It’s called the COSMOS-Web field, and if that sounds familiar, it’s probably because an incredible image of it dropped just a month ago. That, however, was just a little taste of what has now come to pass.
A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it’s blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth.
The incoming blast of solar particles is worth getting excited about: we’re in for a moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm starting around Saturday June 14, according to the NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
A coronal hole is a region where the magnetic fields on the surface of the Sun weaken and open up. This allows the wind of charged particles that constantly gusts from the Sun out into the Solar System to escape more freely.
A giant conundrum has been found orbiting a teeny tiny red dwarf star just a fifth of the size of the Sun.
Such small stars were thought to be incapable of producing giant planets. But there, in its orbit, appears to be unmistakable evidence of an absolute unit: a gas giant around the size of Saturn.
“Men may ask, in days yet to dawn, how it came about that the flame of glory died in Egypt, how her grandeur passed away into dust. How, when man had climbed so high, he could climb no longer. But there is no simple cause, the seeds of degeneration lie dormant in every nation, in every man. As the man, so the nation. These seeds are as weeds, which spring up when the cultivated soil is neglected, when it is tended with indifference. The road to greatness is, for nations as for each man, a hard and stony one. Greatness is a gift requiring constant effort to retain; when men decline the effort, greatness departs. Greatness and glory will abide only in the habitations of the worthy. They depart when no longer treated as honored guests. What are Justice and Truth today? They are no more than words mumbled by the lips, but once, they were an inextinguishable flame burning within the hearts of men. What is left of honor when men cease to regard it as more than an empty symbol? It is like the lyre in the hands of a man with blistered fingers, or as the flute played by one with scabby lips. The instruments remain, but where are the musicians? Without the musicians, where are the melodies?”
-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:34:19)
What is called “The Flame of Glory” in the quote from the Kolbrin Bible is just another way of saying Spiritual Light. We must remember that until only a little over a century ago, Light and fire were considered the same thing, as the only way to get light was with fires and torches. The highly developed spiritual people knew that Spiritual Light was something very different from the flames of a torch, but few others did.
The quote says men “had climbed so high, he could climb no longer.” That is only true of those who joined the Mystery Schools of the day and developed their spiritual Self to its full potential. But there were many people, probably the majority, who made no such effort, and it is through those people that the forces of darkness often work to bring down the spiritual.
It is true that the seeds of degeneration are in all of us and can come out when we least expect it. Even people who are well along in their spiritual development can fall victim to the demons that whisper in their ears. That is why it is now—and always has been—important to be part of a spiritual community rather than trying to go it alone. As part of a community, we can help each other and protect each other from the beings of darkness. Also, as the quote says, this degeneration can happen when we neglect “the cultivated soil”. In other words, when we don’t practice our spiritual development techniques with regularity.
The quote says that Justice and Truth became empty words, and honor is an empty symbol. Certainly, many can quote a dictionary definition of those words, but they don’t really understand them. And this is as much a problem today as it was in the time that “The Flame of Glory” died in Egypt. Many think that if the majority believes something, it makes it true, but that is rarely the case. Likewise, many think that because we have lawyers and judges that we have justice, but that is also seldom true. We even refer to the justices of the Supreme Court in The United States as liberal or conservative. To do so says that they are making decisions based on political views rather than on what is right, so they are not practicing Justice. Fortunately, we are now at the beginning of an age when all of that can change, and the Flame of Glory will rule mankind again. We can all hope that happens soon, and do what we can to help.
“As it stands, proclamations of the impending demise of our Galaxy seem greatly exaggerated.”
That’s the conclusion scientists have reached after revisiting the possibility of what we thought was a foregone conclusion: the eventual clash of giants, a collision between the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies.
Astronomers in Hawaii said this week that they’ve detected 3 different stars being devoured by supermassive black holes. In the process, the holes released more energy than 100 supernovas! These are the largest explosions since the Big Bang, the astronomers say. They’re calling the events extreme nuclear transients.
The stars responsible for these powerhouse explosions are from 3 to 10 times more massive than our sun. And these brightening events aren’t just brilliant, but brief, flashes. They last for months to years, helping astronomers see an otherwise hidden part of the cosmos.
For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with comets and asteroids delivering moisture to Earth and the inner planets during the Late Heavy Bombardment period around 4 billion years ago.
An abundance of ice in places like the Kuiper Belt – the ring of ‘iceteroids’ in the outer Solar System – supports the idea. However, the hypothesis could not be tested until it became possible to study extrasolar systems in the early stages of formation.
“Be ever above price. One worthy of the greatness you reflect on Earth, one ever above mundane things. Be as the sun, whose brightness seeks out every nook and cranny and pours light into their hidden gloom. Be one who shines among men to lighten their days. Spread uprightness and honesty
across the two lands, as the sunshine spreads brightness and warmth. Cover the land with goodness, as the rising waters cover it with fertility. Fill the land with strength, as the north wind fills it with contentment.
“Guard Your heart, as a father guards his daughter, as a mother guards her baby, for it is the stronghold of integrity. Be vigilant concerning every deed, for the eyes of men are ever upon you, the life you live is not yours alone. You are the image, which men will imitate, and you are before every eye. The blowing wind will open its ear at your windows and spread wide its report. The flowing waters beside your door will uncover their eyes and carry what they behold through the land. Your position makes
you a supporting pillar of the government; if the pillars be rotten, the roof crashes. Your responsibilities will beset your life with care; the road you journey is stony and encompassed with pitfalls and thorns. The cup you drink will be more often bitter than sweet.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (Man:34:15-16)
The greatness this quote is dealing with is not political or business greatness, but spiritual greatness. As we awaken spiritually and develop our spiritual faculties, we are obligated to help others do the same in various ways. One way is simply by reflecting some of that Spiritual Greatness, or Light. We do that in two ways. In a more general way, we send some of our light out into the world filled with thoughts of peace, joy, love, and other positive attributes. The second way is to send such Light to specific individuals who request it, or who we know need such help. As the quote says, be like the sun sending out Light into every nook and cranny.
The spiritual student must be above mundane things in order to develop spiritually to any significant degree. That doesn’t mean that we must dress in rags and live in a cave. We can have a reasonable amount of material goods, such as a proper house and clothes, as long as we don’t get so attached to those things that we start putting them ahead of our spiritual development. Cosolargy teaches that we must put God’s requirements above all other things, and that means putting the spiritual before the material.
Almost everyone agrees that we should do good all the time. The problem is that many can’t tell the good from the neutral, or even evil deeds. The worse example of this is that many have been tricked by the Dark Beings into believing that wars are sometimes a good thing. There are time when a country must go to war to protect its people and territory, but even then, war is not good, only necessary. True goodness means showing kindness, empathy, and generosity to others. It also means that we should try to do work that does not harm people. For example, a spiritual person should not be working in a cigarette factory.
As most of us know by now, when the ancient writings talk about the heart, they really mean the Soul, as the heart is often considered to be the location of the Soul. We can guard the heart by wearing our sacred thread with the gems or stones on it that have been programmed to protect us against dark forces and beings. We can also protect our souls by asking for the aid of God. And we can protect it by being part of a community of like-minded individuals, as we are in Cosolargy. While in this time, we may not be supporting pillars of the government, we are supporting pillars of God’s Truth and Wisdom. And the prophecies of the Community tell us that a time will come when leaders will consult us as did the great leaders of long ago consult the Mystery Schools of the time.
The mystery of strangely blinking objects scattered throughout the Milky Way just deepened.
Something 15,000 light-years away from the Sun isn’t just slowly, methodically beaming out radio waves – each pulse is also blasting emissions in X-ray wavelengths, serendipitous observations have revealed.
This behavior is completely new and scientists are at a loss to explain it.