In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million years. New simulations suggest the same ring-shaped region sorted and recycled material by time, helping explain why carbonaceous chondrites differ so sharply.
The speed of light remains one of physics’ firmest assumptions, but scientists still test whether it ever shifts under extreme conditions. A new review draws together decades of observations, tightening the limits on possible departures from relativity and sharpening the next round of searches.
“Naked does man come from his mother’s womb, and naked does he return to the womb of the Earth. He brings no possessions with him to Earth, and no more can be taken out. Yet, he leaves not altogether as he entered, for though his riches and estate, his titles, even his clothes are left behind, if he has lived wisely, he goes out richer in soul wisdom and arrayed in soul beauty. Man arrives at the Great Portal arrayed in glory or clothed in horror.
“In the newborn childling is the soft seed of the slumbering soul; this will be developed, moulded and fashioned throughout the period of its earthly existence. It will be shaped by man himself to his own inner likeness; then, when stripped of its outward bodily covering, man will stand revealed to himself and be faced with splendor or horror.
“In the likeness, to which the soul is fashioned in the body, so shall it come forth in the spirit on its appointed day.
“Thus it is written in the Secret Books of Wisdom, which are revealed to the few. The body is a womb, life the days of conception, and death the birth of the soul. Is it not written that some shall bring forth
monsters and fearful things, and some shall bear gods? These things are not beyond understanding.”
-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:33-36)
We are born into the physical world naked and with nothing. It doesn’t matter if our parents are poor, middle class, or wealthy. Everyone arrives the same. The quote says we also leave Earth naked. That is not literally true, but it makes the point that we take nothing with us when we exit the material realm. Even if we have accumulated great wealth, we can take none of it with us. Even if we could, it would be useless in the spiritual realm.
If we live wisely, we will develop our spiritual faculties while we are alive in the physical sense. Then we do take something with us when we physically die. We take our spirit and soul. Many people believe that when we die, our spirit goes directly to Heaven. That is not true. Heaven is a place of perfection, and a Soul that is not fully developed cannot go there since it is not yet perfect. So spiritual development doesn’t end with physical death. We must continue to develop after we depart this world until we achieve the perfection that allows us to enter heaven.
We don’t enter the physical world with the seed of the Soul, but we do enter this realm with our spiritual faculties in a dormant state similar to a coma. We must awaken and develop those faculties. That is what Jesus meant when he said we must be reborn. That is also what the quote means when it says “In the likeness, to which the soul is fashioned in the body, so shall it come forth in the spirit on its appointed day.”
We don’t know what the Secret Books of Wisdom were, but all of the ancient mystery schools had their secret books of teachings, and they were revealed only to a small number of people. Even those who were admitted as students to the schools did not get to see them until they successfully passed a trial period of two or three years.
In a sense, I guess we can say it is true that some people bear monsters. People like Hitler and Kim Jong-un. Others that may not have killed many people, but were monsters for the way in which they killed just a few. As for bearing gods, no human has ever given birth to a god, but humans have made many false gods to worship because the greatness of the one true God was too much for them to comprehend.
There’s an era in the early Universe that has been poorly studied called the Epoch of Reionization. This is when the Universe’s very first stars and galaxies ionized the intergalactic medium, shifting it from opaque to translucent so light was able to travel through the Universe. A new instrument designed to study this period has released its first results. It’s called the Tomographic Ionized Carbon Mapping Experiment, or TIME, and it is mounted on a 12-meter radio telescope in Arizona.
When JWST began operations, it made a surprising discovery. Supermassive black holes were much heavier than previously expected in the early universe. Normally, black holes make up 0.1 to 0.5% of the mass of their host galaxy, but Webb was finding black holes with up to 30% of their galaxy mass. New research says that these overmassive black holes must be caused by direct collapse from clouds of material.
Of the more than 6,000 known exoplanets, astronomers have only found 18 circumbinary planets. This is where planets orbit two stars. Now, a team of astronomers announced that they have found 27 more potential circumbinary planetary systems. They used a technique called apsidal precession for their finding, watching how the orbits of the stars slowly change over time due to the influence of the gravity from their planets.
“The earthly and wayward seek only after outward pleasures and the satisfaction of the body. They fall into the snare of disbelief in the soul, and the Law decrees that disbelief shall be easy.
“Wise men, knowing the nature of immortal things, seek not for anything stable here among unstable things.
“That by which we know the texture of things, by which we taste, smell and hear, by which we experience the tenderness and suffering of love and perceive the beauty of nature, by which we value the glory of self sacrifice, by that we are also assured of something immortal within us.
“For when a man comes to the realization that it is by the soul within him that he knows and experiences all things about him, he has taken the first great step towards conscious immortality.”
The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:23-26)
The earthly and wayward seek for material pleasures as the only things of value in life. They either don’t believe in anything spiritual, or they believe that they can wait until they are physically dead to worry about the spirit. Both of those beliefs are false.
When the quote says that the law decrees that disbelief in the soul “shall be easy,” it is referring to the false law of the Demiurge, not the true Law of God. God’s Law is that we should believe in the Spirit and Soul and that we should develop those spiritual faculties while we are still in the physical world.
Wise men and women know the nature of immortal things. They know that it is spiritual things that are immortal, so they do not seek immortal things in the physical realm, what the quote calls “unstable things”. Many know that some spiritual teachers of the past said that nothing physical is real. What they meant is that nothing physical is permanent. Only the Spiritual is permanent. Only the spiritual comes from God.
Knowing love and beauty does assure us that there is something immortal within us, as the quote says. Of course, this only goes for real Love, which is universal, and real beauty that is not defined by things that are temporary, and definitely not by things altered with cosmetics and surgery. Real beauty is more than what’s on the surface.
It is true that when we learn that it is through the spirit and soul that we know what and experience reality, it is the first step towards conscious immortality. Indeed, one of the purposes of spiritual development techniques is to gradually rise to higher and higher levels of consciousness until we reach the highest level where God and the Angels dwell.
Since this article is short, I’ve decided to add a few lines from a very spiritual song that few spiritual people seem to know about. The song is Hummingbird by Seals and Crofts.
“Haven’t you noticed the days somehow keep getting longer, and the spirit voice grows stronger in us all.
Haven’t you noticed the Rays, the Spirit Sun grows stronger, and a new day is dawning for us all.”
Here is a link to the full song on YouTube:
The Amaterasu particle was detected by the Telescope Array Project in Utah in 2021. It was one of the highest energy cosmic ray events ever detected, comparable to the “Oh-My-God particle” detected in 1991. So what was its cause? New research suggests an ultraheavy particle might explain the event, instead of a light particle accelerated to extremely high velocity.
Open star clusters are beautiful objects to observe in a small telescope with dozens or even thousands of twinkling stars. The Sun was once part of a cluster like this, but its early companions are scattered across the Milky Way. We know of at least 5,000, and there could be as many as 100,000 open clusters in the galaxy. Now, astronomers have discovered that open clusters can orbit one another, similar to how binary stars can do their gravitational dance.
You’re looking at an amazing image: the N159 star-forming complex located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, near the more famous Tarantula Nebula. The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the star-forming region in intricate detail. You can see how powerful radiation from hot stars sculpts the nearby gas and dust, blowing bubbles that prevent new infalling material from reaching the stars. Check out the article to see Webb’s version of the region.